Pantomime in Scotland

Paul Maloney is a theatre historian who was formerly Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow and at Queen’s University Belfast. He has written extensively about Scottish popular theatre and entertainment culture, and is the author of Scotland and the Music Hall, 1850-1914 (Manchester University Press, 2003) and The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall and Cosmopolitan Entertainment Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Most recently he has contributed chapters on Transatlantic Exchanges to Claire Cochrane, Trish Reid et al (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre. Volume One: 1900-1950 (2024), and on Stages, Performers and Audiences in the late c19, and Popular Theatre to the new Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre (Randall Stevenson and Greg Walker eds., OUP, 2025). Adrienne Scullion is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Open University. She was previously Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast, and Dean of Research for the Arts and James Arnott Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow. As well as her research interest in Scottish theatre and drama from the eighteenth century to the present, she has written on theatre and drama for children and young people, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women playwrights, and cultural policy. Previous publications with Maloney include ‘But to our tale: Tam o’ Shanter on Stage’, in Ian Brown and Gerard Carruthers (eds.), Performing Robert Burns (EUP, 2021).

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresPreface1. Hail Caledonia!: unionism and national identity in Scottish pantomime stories, 1850-18802. The impact of music hall, 1880-19203. Golden age: ‘Wha's like us!’; or, the triumph of the vernacular4. Pantomine’s imagined Scotlands: there’s no place like home5. Pantomime’s imagined Scotlands: A Wish for Jamie6. A living tradition7. A changing industry8. The past in the present: the continuity of Scottish pantomime in performanceBibliographyIndex