Victorian Pantomime: A Collection of Critical Essays

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Victorian Pantomime....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
E. L. Blanchard and ‘The Golden Age of Pantomime’....Pages 21-40
‘Arcadias of Pantomime’: Ruskin, Pantomime, and The Illustrated London News....Pages 41-53
Lewis Carroll, E. L. Blanchard and Frank W. Green....Pages 54-69
Harlequin Encore: Sixty Years of the Britannia Pantomime....Pages 70-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Pantomime and the Experienced Young Fellow....Pages 87-99
‘Only an Undisciplined [Nation] would have done it’: Drury Lane Pantomime in the Late Nineteenth Century....Pages 100-117
Dan Leno: Dame of Drury Lane....Pages 118-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Mapping the Place of Pantomime in a Victorian Town....Pages 137-154
‘Local and political hits’: Allusion and Collusion in the Local Pantomime....Pages 155-169
‘Holding up the mirror’: Readership and Authorship in the Era’s Pantomime Reviews from the 1870s....Pages 170-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Continuity and Transformation in Twentieth-century Pantomime....Pages 185-200
Victorian Pantomime on Twentieth-century Film....Pages 201-215
Back Matter....Pages 216-230