Hurlothrumbo

I have just lit upon a most beautiful fiction of hell punishments, by the author of "Hurlothrumbo," a mad farce.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

Hurlothrumbo told a learned bishop, that the reason his lordship could not taste the excellence of his piece was, that he did not read it with a fiddle in his hand; which instrument he himself had always had in his own, when he composed it.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

(P. 42) _Hurlothrumbo_ may be mostly nonsense, but from the standpoint of literary history, it is highly significant nonsense.

The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 Maximillian E. [Commentator] Novak

Professor Guffey has proposed that James Roberts, for whom the four parts were printed, “was almost certainly the collector of the graffiti” and that the name of Hurlothrumbo was invoked in order to attract some of the attention that Samuel Johnson of

The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 Maximillian E. [Commentator] Novak

The irrational, amusing speeches and actions of Hurlothrumbo, the play's title-character, gained instant fame, and two years later Roberts, by attributing his collection to the labors of that celebrity, had every reason to expect that the book would attract immediate attention.

The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1 George R. [Commentator] Guffey

Parts of _Hurlothrumbo_, particularly the scene between Lady Flame and Wildfire (both of whom are described in the list of characters as “mad”) in which Wildfire threatens to cast off his clothes and “run about stark naked” (48), bear an odd resemblance to

The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 Maximillian E. [Commentator] Novak

Professor Guffey offers parallels between _The Merry-Thought_ and _Hurlothrumbo_ in

The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 Maximillian E. [Commentator] Novak

The announced “publisher” of this olio was one Hurlothrumbo, a character drawn from the theatrical piece of that name by Samuel Johnson of

The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 Maximillian E. [Commentator] Novak

Thus the famous author of Hurlothrumbo told a learned bishop, that the reason his lordship could not taste the excellence of his piece was, that he did not read it with a fiddle in his hand; which instrument he himself had always had in his own, when he composed it.

I. Containing Five Pages of Paper. Book IV 1917

Opera_ (1728), and of other comic entertainments which succeeded it -- _Hurlothrumbo_ (1729), _Pasquin_ (1736) and _The Dragon of Wantley_

Handel Edward J. Dent 1916