He then left Anne of Austria for King Charles I, who knighted George as a Gentleman of the Bedchamber. A scandalous playboy in his day, George was said to play both fields, first consorting with King James I then many ladies of the court, including Anne of Austria, the Queen Consort of France. “Georgie Porgie” is said to satirize George Villiers, the 1st Duke of Buckingham. This bibliography was generated on Cite This For Me on Wednesday, October 7, 2015. These are the sources and citations used to research Humpty Dumpty. The silver bells are instruments of torture that crushed the thumb with the tightening of a screw, and cockleshells were torture devices attached to one’s genitals. Humpty Dumpty - Art History bibliographies - in Harvard style. “How does your garden grow?” refers to Bloody Mary’s growing graveyard of executed Protestants. It’s rumored that Mary Tudor I, known best for her bloody reign, inspired this nursery rhyme. “Mary, Mary Quite Contrary” isn’t about an older woman’s interest in flowers. Louis XVI was beheaded on January 21, 1793, effectively losing his crown (pun intended) and Queen Marie Antoinette suffered the same fate nine months later. “Jack and Jill,” a nonsensical rhyme about children rolling down a hill, originated in France in reference to King Louis XVI (Jack) and Queen Marie Antoinette (Jill). This had led to many ideas as to who, or what, the Humpty Dumpty. Humpty Dumpty is not the only nursery rhyme linked to a historical event. Humpty Dumpty was a common nickname, used in 15th century England, to describe large people. Thanks to the popularity of the book and its pop culture adaptation, we now know Humpty Dumpty as an egg. In this book, the author sometimes failed to establish clearly the origins of some of them, offering conflicting theories and suggesting the one that is. The three-stanza Humpty Dumpty poem was also shortened to one stanza, and thus went from a story to a riddle for which an egg seemed the most plausible answer. So how did we come to know Humpty Dumpty as an egg?Īpparently on a whim, a 19th-century illustrator in Lewis Caroll’s “Through the Looking Glass” depicted Humpty Dumpty as an egg. The cannon, a formidable weapon, was beyond repair. In 1648, while under siege, an enemy’s cannonball blew apart the wall upon which Humpty Dumpty sat, sending it tumbling to the ground. Humpty Dumpty was the name of a cannon used by English Royalists in the English Civil War of 1642-1649.ĭuring the war, Royalists placed several cannons on walls surrounding the city of Colchester.
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