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Victorian Pantomime

A Collection of Critical Essays

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  • © 2010

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  1. Jim Davis

    1. University of Warwick, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Victorian Pantomime

    1. Introduction: Victorian Pantomime

      • Jim Davis
      Pages 1-18

  3. The Golden Age of Pantomime: The Mid-Victorian Period

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. E. L. Blanchard and ‘The Golden Age of Pantomime’

      • Jeffrey Richards
      Pages 21-40

    3. ‘Arcadias of Pantomime’: Ruskin, Pantomime, and The Illustrated London News

      • Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
      Pages 41-53

    4. Lewis Carroll, E. L. Blanchard and Frank W. Green

      • Richard Foulkes
      Pages 54-69

    5. Harlequin Encore: Sixty Years of the Britannia Pantomime

      • Janice Norwood
      Pages 70-84

  4. Pantomime, Representation and Ideology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. Pantomime and the Experienced Young Fellow

      • Jacky Bratton
      Pages 87-99

    3. ‘Only an Undisciplined [Nation] would have done it’: Drury Lane Pantomime in the Late Nineteenth Century

      • Jim Davis
      Pages 100-117

    4. Dan Leno: Dame of Drury Lane

      • Caroline Radcliffe
      Pages 118-134

  6. The Legacy of Victorian Pantomime

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. Continuity and Transformation in Twentieth-century Pantomime

      • Millie Taylor
      Pages 185-200

    3. Victorian Pantomime on Twentieth-century Film

      • David Mayer
      Pages 201-215

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 216-230
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About this book

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 with Victorian values.

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Not only of interest to theatre historians, [ Victorian Pantomime ] will also prove useful to students and scholars in the disciplines of Victorian studies, cultural studies, and popular entertainment.' - Simon Sladen, New Theatre Quarterly

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Warwick, UK

    Jim Davis

About the editor

JACKY BRATTON Professor of Theatre and Cultural History, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK ANN FEATHERSTONE Performance Historian in the Department of Drama, University of Manchester, UK RICHARD FOULKES Emeritus Professor of Theatre History, University of Leicester, UK DAVID MAYER Emeritus Professor of Drama and Research Professor, University of Manchester, UK JANICE NORWOOD Lecturer in English Literature, University of Hertfordshire, UK CAROLINE RADCLIFFE Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham, UK JEFFREY RICHARDS Professor of Cultural History, Lancaster University, UK JO ROBINSON Head of Drama in the School of English Studies, University of Nottingham, UK JILL A. SULLIVAN Honorary Fellow, University of Exeter, UK MILLIE TAYLOR University of Winchester, UK SHARON ARONOFSKY WELTMAN Professor of English and Director of English Graduate Studies, Louisiana State University, USA

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