ballad-opera

Two editions of this ballad-opera were published in 1736.

Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895

The ballad-opera, since invented, in which part is sung, part acted and spoken, comes nearest to its description.

The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07 John Dryden 1665

One can well believe that lovers of dialect south of the Tweed were thereby moved to emulation, and in the year 1736 Henry Carey, the reputed son of the Marquis of Halifax, produced a ballad-opera bearing the equivocal title, A Wonder, or An Honest Yorkshireman. (

Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895

It is probably taken from some defunct ballad-opera.]

Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England Unknown 1833