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Mother GooseIn literature, Mother Goose (French: Ma Mère l'Oye) is the archtypical countrywoman, the teller of fairy tales and nursery rhymes.
No specific writer has ever been identified with the name, the first known mention of which appears in an aside in a versified chronicle of weekly happenings, that appeared regularly for several years, Jean Loret's La Muse Historique (in 1650?): comme un conte de la Mere Oye ("Like a Mother Goose story"). The Contes de ma mère l'Oye (Charles Perrault's Mother Goose Tales), edited in 1697 by Charles Perrault (French author), is made of eight tales:
Many of them were adapted for the theater or movies, especially by the Disney studios or by Jim Henson. In 1765, John Newbury's Mother Goose's Melody, switched the focus from fairy tales to nursery rhymes, and in English this is still the prime connotation for Mother Goose. Maurice Ravel (French composer) wrote an opus named Ma Mère l'Oye, suite for piano, which was then orchestrated and became a ballet. Mother Goose is also the name of a pantomime featuring nursery rhyme characters. The name Mother Goose is now used as a generic title for collections of nursery rhymes, especially those from a previous age.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia and from FairyTale-Cottage.com
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