The Dragon of Wantley is a legend of a dragon-slaying by a knight on Wharncliffe Crags in South Yorkshire, recounted in a comic broadside ballad of 1685...
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John Frederick Lampe (category Emigrants from the Holy Roman Empire to the Kingdom of Great Britain)
the stage include the mock operas Pyramus and Thisbe (1745) and The Dragon of Wantley (1734), which ran for 69 nights, a record for the time, surpassing...
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Adolph Hasse – Asteria John Frederick Lampe and Henry Carey – The Dragon of Wantley Leonardo Leo L'Olimpiade Siface Jean-Philippe Rameau – Castor et Pollux...
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Owen Wister (category Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
namesake of his novel, Lady Baltimore. Wikisource has original works by or about: Owen Wister The New Swiss Family Robinson (1882) The Dragon of Wantley: His...
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Bridge Street, Ardee depicting the battle and the death of Ferdiad. Impalement Dragon of Wantley Joseph Dunn, "The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge"...
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and he produced Margery, or, a Worse Plague than the Dragon, a sequel to The Dragon of Wantley. He had another popular success in 1739 with Nancy, or...
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1737 in literature (category Years of the 18th century in literature)
Beggars in all the Parishes of Dublin Diego de Torres Villarroel – Médico para el bolsillo Henry Carey – The Dragon of Wantley (burlesque opera adaptation)...
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Dorsia – American Psycho (2000) Double Deuce – Road House (1989) The Dragon of Wantley – an inn in The Barchester Chronicles, making its first appearance...
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Wharncliffe Crags (category Climbing areas of England)
chapter of Ivanhoe: "Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley". The story tells the tale of how More, of More Hall, slays a troublesome dragon that...
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Serse (category Cultural depictions of Xerxes I)
absence of da capo arias, by the success in London of ballad operas such as The Beggar's Opera and John Frederick Lampe's The Dragon of Wantley, the latter...
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Parody (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from September 2012)
the Cat by William Baldwin The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Dragon of Wantley, an anonymous 17th century ballad Hudibras...
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1892 in literature (category Years of the 19th century in literature)
of David Grieve Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman Young Lucretia and Other Stories The Pot of Gold and Other Stories Owen Wister - The Dragon of Wantley:...
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Wharncliffe Side (category Villages of the metropolitan borough of Sheffield)
landmark north of the village, associated with the legend of the Dragon of Wantley Ordnance survey. 1:25000. c.2012 Wharncliffe Side is made up of five output...
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Augustan drama (section The problem of "Spectacle")
titular dragon of Wantley, as well as the miniaturizing of Tom Thumb and the lurid scenery of the Covent Garden brothel, were part of the draw and part of the...
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Augustan literature (redirect from Literature of the Georgian era)
dated from only the 17th century (e.g. the Bagford Ballads or The Dragon of Wantley in the Percy Folio), and so what began as an antiquarian movement...
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important ballads as "The Ballad of Chevy Chase", "The Battle of Otterburn", "Lillibullero", "The Dragon of Wantley", "The Nut-Brown Maid" and "Sir Patrick...
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George Frideric Handel (category Members of the Royal Society of Musicians)
Frederick Lampe; The Dragon of Wantley was first performed at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket in London on 16 May 1737. It was a parody of the Italian opera...
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Augustan poetry (section Precursors of Romanticism)
dated from only the 17th century (e.g. the Bagford Ballads or The Dragon of Wantley in the Percy Folio), and so what began as an antiquarian movement...
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Chrononhotonthologos (category Caroline of Ansbach)
Magic Pudding (1910). The play is also one of the first examples of a parodic opera. Although The Dragon of Wantley would be more fully an opera, Chrononhotonthologos...
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Boston Early Music Festival (redirect from Festival of Early Music)
Desmarest, libretto by Louise-Geneviève Gillot de Saintonge (2023) The Dragon of Wantley by John Frederick Lampe (2023) Don Quichotte by Georg Philipp Telemann...
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War Sir Francis Wortley, 2nd Baronet (c. 1616–1665), of the Wortley baronets Dragon of Wantley, a 1767 poem about Sir Francis Wortley This disambiguation...
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Victoria Vokes (category Women of the Victorian era)
Mother Bunch (1869); The Dragon of Wantley; or, Harlequin or Old Mother Shipton (1870); Tom Thumb; or, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (1871)...
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Mary Mozeen (category Year of birth missing)
first few parts were in The Burgomaster Trick'd, Henry Carey's The Dragon of Wantley and then Glowworm in Robin Goodfellow. It was said that she blushed...
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role in John Lampe's The Dragon of Wantley at Drury Lane in 1743. In 1744, Sullivan joined Handel's circle, performing in one of his Covent Garden oratorios...
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Theatre Royal Haymarket (category Theatres in the City of Westminster)
just one of his plays in that series of anti-Walpolean satires, followed by Tom Thumb. Another, in 1734, was his mock-opera, The Dragon of Wantley, with...
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opera The Dragon of Wantley. A tremendous success, Isabella portrayed the role for several seasons in more than 100 performances. In the middle of the production's...
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Bunch (1869); The Dragon of Wantley; or, Harlequin or Old Mother Shipton (1870); the Jester in Tom Thumb: or, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table...
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theatres for four years. Pyramus returns to the vein of burlesque that he mined in The Dragon of Wantley (1737), his first popular success; it ridicules Italian-style...
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George More (recusant) (category Court of James VI and I)
dependent of the Earls of Shrewsbury. An old ballad, the Dragon of Wantley, refers to More Hall. Francis More had offered to help Mary, Queen of Scots. In...
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Fred Vokes (category Actors from the London Borough of Islington)
(1869); The Dragon of Wantley; or, Harlequin or Old Mother Shipton (1870); King Arthur in Tom Thumb: or, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table...
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