Harlequin Nobody, or the Babes in the Woods

Harlequin Nobody, or the Babes in the Woods

"Alfred Crowquill"

1842

Engraving

The Ilustrated London News

Theatre Royal, Adelphi

Harlequin Nobody, or the Babes in the Wood was probably based on Drury Lane's Harlequin and Robin Cooke; or the Babes in the Wood (1827), in turn based on the Haymarket's October 1793 musical adaption of the old ballad (1595), which appeared in Thomas Percy's Reliques (1765). — Philip V. Allingham

Scanned by Terry-Lynn Johnson, Lakehead University

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