Mother Goose

Mother Goose ( Ma Mère l' Oye French, German Mother Goose ) is a fictional character from nursery rhymes and fairy tales, which is widely used especially in America and Britain. She is usually depicted in book illustrations than older peasant woman with a high pointed hat, or alternatively as goose with a cap. Mother Goose Rhymes ( Mother Goose Rhymes ) are available as a generic term for poems that are, as humorous verses, rhymes and lullabies to children who have a simple meter and were handed some oral.

History

The first mentioned by name of Mother Goose dated to 1697, when the writers and preservers of fairy tale Charles Perrault under the name of his son published a collection of eight fairy tales in French. The tales contained were La Belle au bois dormant ( Sleeping Beauty ), Petit Chaperon rouge ( Little Red Riding Hood ), La Barbe bleüe ( Bluebeard ), Le Maistre Chat, ou le Chat botté ( Puss in Boots ), Les fées ( Frau Holle ), Cendrillon, ou la Petite Pantoufle de verre ( Cinderella ), Riquet à la Houppe ( Riquet with the tuft ) and Le Petit Poucet ( Tom Thumb ). The collection was known by its subtitle, " Contes de ma mère l' Oye " ( stories from my Mother Goose ). 1729 appeared with Robert Samber 's Histories or Tales of Past Times, the first translation into English Edition, and made the fairy tales in the English speaking world is known.

In the Anglo -Saxon cultural area Frau Holle collected as Mother Goose, provided with a pointed hat and wand, the young children around, where she taught foolish dance games and rhymes, some of which, read with altered views, hints to the knowledge of additions to non-visible worlds salvaged.

Well-known Mother Goose rhymes

Fairy tales, stories and poems by Mother Goose

Known Publications before 1923

Sorted in chronological order. The annual limit of 1923 results from the American term of protection of texts and illustrations, thus following publications are available online:

  • Charles Perrault: Histoires ou contes du temps passés, avec des moralites - Contes de ma mère l' Oye. Paris, 1697 ( translated into English by Charles Welsh. Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals: Tales of Mother Goose
  • Mother Goose 's Melody; or Sonnets for the Cradle. Newbery, London in 1780. ( Copyright filed on December 29, 1780 by John Carnan, stepson of Verlegerds John Newbery. )
  • The Only True Mother Goose Melodies. Munroe & Francis, Boston 1825
  • L. Frank Baum: Mother Goose in Prose, with illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. Way and Williams, Chicago 1897.
  • The Real Mother Goose, with illustrations by Blanche Fisher Wright. Rand McNally, Chicago, 1916.

Adaptations

Ballet Music for Orchestra:

  • Ma mère l' oye by Maurice Ravel, premiered on January 29, 1912 at the Théâtre des Arts in Paris

Music:

Film and Television:

  • Mother Goose Rock ' n' Rhyme, a Disney Channel TV movie from 1990 directed by Jeff Stein, among others with Harry Anderson, Cyndi Lauper, Art Garfunkel and Woody Harrelson
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