Featuring contributions by new and established nineteenth-century theatre scholars, this collection of critical essays is the first of its kind devoted solely to Victorian pantomime. It takes us through the various manifestations of British pantomime in the Victorian period and its ambivalent relationship withVictorian values. " INDICE: - List of Tables and Figures - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction: Victorian Pantomime; J.Davis - PART I: THE GOLDEN AGE OFPANTOMIME: THE MID-VICTORIAN PERIOD - E. L. Blanchard and 'The Golden Age of Pantomime'; J.Richards - 'Arcadias of Pantomime': Ruskin, Pantomime, and the Illustrated London News; S.A.Weltman - Lewis Carroll, E.L. Blanchard and Frank W. Green; R.Foulkes - Harlequin Encore: Sixty Years of the Britannia Pantomime; J.Norwood - PART II: PANTOMIME, REPRESENTATION AND IDEOLOGY - Pantomime and the Experienced Young Fellow; J.Bratton - 'Only an Undisciplined (Nation) would have done it': Drury Lane Pantomime in the Late Nineteenth Century; J.Davis - Dan Leno: Dame of Drury Lane; C.Radcliffe - PART III: PROVINCIAL PANTOMIME -Mapping the Place of Pantomime in a Victorian Town; J.Robinson - 'Local and Political Hits': Allusion and Collusion in the Local Pantomime; J.Sullivan - 'Holding up the Mirror': Readership and Authorship in the Era's Pantomime Reviews from the 1870s; A.Featherstone - PART IV: THE LEGACY OF VICTORIAN PANTOMIME - Continuity and Transformation in Twentieth Century Pantomime; M.Taylor - Victorian Pantomime on Film; D.Mayer - Selected Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-22159-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha Publicación: 17/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés