Babes in the Wood is a traditional children's tale, as well as a popular pantomime subject. It has also been the name of some other unrelated works. The phrase has passed into the language, referring to innocents in any potentially dangerous situation. Pantomime may refer to two different types of performing arts. ...

Traditional tale

The traditional children's tale (attributed to a Mother Goose rhyme but first published as a ballad by Thomas Millington in 1595) is of two children abandoned in a wood who die and are covered with leaves by robins. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

The Walt Disney Company re-worked this tale, incorporating some material from Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm and adding a village of friendly elves (a feature not traditionally present in either tale) and a happy ending, and on 1932-11-19 released an animated short film entitled Babes in the Wood. The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) NYSE: DIS is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ... Gretel tricks the witch Hansel and Gretel (German: Hänsel und Gretel) is a German fairy tale, collected by the Brothers Grimm. ... Jump to: navigation, search Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm The Brothers Grimm (Gebrüder Grimm) are Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm and were well known for publishing collections of German fairy tales, as Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Childrens and Household Tales), in 1812, with a second volume in 1814 (1815 on... Jump to: navigation, search 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Jump to: navigation, search November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...

The story is also incorporated into pantomimes. However, for various reasons including both the brevity of the original and the target pantomime audience of young children, modern pantomimes by this name usually combine this story with parts of the modern Robin Hood story (employing the supporting characters from it, such as Maid Marian, rather than Robin himself, however) to lengthen it. Pantomime may refer to two different types of performing arts. ... Jump to: navigation, search Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero, an outlaw who, in modern versions of the legend, stole from the rich to give to the poor. ... Maid Marian is the female companion to the legendary figure Robin Hood. ...

Other works

Babes in the Wood was a story by Michael Arlen. Michael Arlen (November 16, 1895 - June 23, 1956) was an Armenian novelist and short story writer who had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England. ...

Babes in the Wood was a British television situation comedy series broadcast on ITV from 1998-1999. The title was a pun on the pantomime story name, involving a group of attractive women (the "babes") who shared a flat in St John's Wood in London (the "wood"). Jump to: navigation, search A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Jump to: navigation, search Independent Television (ITV) is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to the BBC. In England and Wales the channel was recently rebranded ITV1 by ITV plc who own the regional broadcasting licences for the regions. ... St Johns Wood is a district in the City of Westminster in London near Regents Park. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...

There have been several songs by this title, at least one of them related to the traditional tale.

References

• "Babes in the Wood". Norfolk Myths. URL accessed on March 14, 2005.
• "The Babes in the Wood Legend". Wayland. URL accessed on March 14, 2005. This gives two alternative versions of the traditional tale.
• "The Babes in the Wood". The Phrase Finder. URL accessed on March 14, 2005. This includes the text of the Thomas Millington ballad.
• "Babes in the Wood". Nursery Rhymes. URL accessed on March 14, 2005. This is the Mother Goose rhyme.
• "Babes in the Wood". KIDiddles: Song lyrics. URL accessed on March 17, 2005. Song lyrics, a variant on the Mother Goose rhyme.
• "Babes in the Wood". Tom Wilkins, The Encyclopaedia of Disney Animated Shorts. URL accessed on March 14, 2005.
• "Babes In The Wood". BBC Guide to Comedy. URL accessed on March 14, 2005. An article on the TV situation comedy.

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External links

• Script for pantomime based upon this story
• For pantomime based on this story