The Wantley Dragon, pt. 2 - Random Bits of Fascination
 
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  1. This semester I taught a class at co-op about Shakespeare and Tudor England. I was surprised that I was able to use nursery rhymes as a framework to teach the history of the Tudors. Many of the nursery rhymes that we know today were written in Tudor England. The people wanted to ridicule and poke fun at the Kings, Queens, and high officials but they often were tossed in jail or beheaded for this type of free speech. So they immortalized their social critic in the form of nursery rhymes. I had to edit my findings for my class of 3rd to 6th graders, but wow! That was a great rabbit hole to explore! So it does not surprised me that you found a ballad ridiculing a lord in dragon form. the lord could probably have jailed the author for this ‘disrespectful’ free speech.

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