Tweedledum and Tweedledee the most celebrated and most frequently quoted (and sometimes misquoted) epigrams", satirising the disagreements between George Frideric Handel and Giovanni Bononcini, written by John Byrom (1692–1763): Although Byrom is clearly the author of the epigram, the last two lines have also been attributed to Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. While the familiar form of the rhyme was not printed until around 1805, when it appeared in "Original Ditties for the Nursery", it is possible that Byrom was drawing on an existing rhyme. The characters are perhaps best known from Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There" (1871).
Through the Looking-Glass version of "The Walrus and the Carpenter". The 1951 animated Disney movie "Alice in Wonderland" also features several elements from "Through the Looking-Glass", including the talking flowers, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and "The Walrus and the Carpenter". Another adaptation, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", produced by "Joseph Shaftel Productions" in 1972 with Fiona Fullerton as Alice, included the twins Fred and Frank Cox as Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The 2010 film "Alice in Wonderland" by Tim Burton contains elements of both "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass". The 1974 Italian TV series Nel Mondo Di Alice (In the World of Alice)