Victorian Pantomime

JACKY BRATTON Professor of Theatre and Cultural History, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKANN FEATHERSTONE Performance Historian in the Department of Drama, University of Manchester, UKRICHARD FOULKES Emeritus Professor of Theatre History, University of Leicester, UKDAVID MAYER Emeritus Professor of Drama and Research Professor, University of Manchester, UKJANICE NORWOOD Lecturer in English Literature, University of Hertfordshire, UKCAROLINE RADCLIFFE Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham, UKJEFFREY RICHARDS Professor of Cultural History, Lancaster University, UKJO ROBINSON Head of Drama in the School of English Studies, University of Nottingham, UKJILL A. SULLIVAN Honorary Fellow, University of Exeter, UKMILLIE TAYLOR University of Winchester, UKSHARON ARONOFSKY WELTMAN Professor of English and Director of English Graduate Studies, Louisiana State University, USA

• List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Victorian Pantomime; J.Davis PART I: THE GOLDEN AGE OF PANTOMIME: THE MID-VICTORIAN PERIOD E. L. Blanchard and 'The Golden Age of Pantomime'; J.Richards 'Arcadias of Pantomime': Ruskin, Pantomime, and the Illustrated London News;  S.A.Weltman Lewis Carroll, E.L. Blanchard and Frank W. Green; R.Foulkes Harlequin Encore: Sixty Years of the Britannia Pantomime; J.Norwood PART II: PANTOMIME, REPRESENTATION AND IDEOLOGY Pantomime and the Experienced Young Fellow; J.Bratton 'Only an Undisciplined (Nation) would have done it': Drury Lane Pantomime in the Late Nineteenth Century; J.Davis Dan Leno: Dame of Drury Lane; C.Radcliffe PART III: PROVINCIAL PANTOMIME Mapping the Place of Pantomime in a Victorian Town; J.Robinson 'Local and Political Hits': Allusion and Collusion in the Local Pantomime; J.Sullivan 'Holding up the Mirror': Readership and Authorship in the Era's Pantomime Reviews from the 1870s; A.Featherstone PART IV: THE LEGACY OF VICTORIAN PANTOMIME Continuity and Transformation in Twentieth Century Pantomime; M.Taylor Victorian Pantomime on Film; D.Mayer Selected Bibliography Index

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