Hurlothrumbo

''Hurlothrumbo; or, The super-natural'' is an 18th-century English nonsense play written by the dancing-master Samuel Johnson of Cheshire, and published in 1729. The spectacle incorporates both musical and spoken elements. The play opened on March 29, 1729 at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.

Writing in 1855, Frederick Lawrence says of the play:

The author himself performed as a principal in the play, with singing, dancing, playing fiddle, and walking on stilts. The novelist and playwright Henry Fielding mentions the play in his novel ''Tom Jones'':

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