Victorian pantomime
Subtitle: a collection of critical essays
By: edited by Jim Davis
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780230221598
Subjects: Pantomime; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jim Davis; title: The golden age of pantomime. The mid-Victorian period : E. L. Blanchard and "the golden age of pantomime" / Jeffrey Richards; title: "Arcadias of pantomime" : Ruskin, pantomime, and The Illustrated London news / Sharon Aronofsky Weltman; title: Lewis Carroll, E. L. Blanchard and Frank W. Green / Richard Foulkes; title: Harlequin encore : sixty years of the Britannia pantomime / Janice Norwood; title: Pantomime, representation and ideology. Pantomime and the experienced young fellow / Jacky Bratton; title: 'Only an undisciplined (nation) would have done it': Drury Lane pantomime in the late nineteenth century / Jim Davis; title: Dan Leno: dame of Drury Lane / Caroline Radcliffe; title: Provincial pantomime. Mapping the place of pantomime in a Victorian town / Jo Robinson; title: 'Local and political hits': allusion and collusion in the local pantomime / Jill Sullivan; title: 'Holding up the mirror' : readership and authorship in the era's pantomime reviews from the 1870s / Ann Featherstone; title: The legacy of Victorian pantomime. Continuity and transformation in twentieth century pantomime / Millie Taylor; title: Victorian pantomime on twentieth century film / David Mayer.