New Theatre Quarterly 51 (New Theatre Quarterly)
Contributors: Clive Barker (Editor); Simon Trussler (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 6, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 105
ISBN-13: 9780521597289
Subjects: Theatre, drama; Theater - General; Performing Arts; Performing Arts/Dance; Performing Arts / Theater / General
First sentence: Christmas pantomime, that peculiarly English form whose uncertain origins go back to the early eighteenth century, has evolved its own distinctive typology of cross-dressed characters, with a Principal Boy who is a girl, a Dame who is indisputably male, and even those humanoid visitors from the animal kingdom known as 'skin parts'.