Till Eulenspiegel (, Low Saxon: Dyl Ulenspegel ) is an impudent trickster figure originating in Middle Low German folklore. His tales were disseminated in popular printed editions narrating a string of lightly connected episodes that outlined his picaresque career, in Germany, Denmark, The Low Countries, Bohemia, Poland, and Italy. He made his main entrance in English-speaking culture late in the nineteenth century as "Owlglass". However, he was first mentioned in English literature by Ben Jonson in his comedic play The Alchemist, or even earlier Owleglasse by Henry Porter in The Two Angry Women of Abington (1599).