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Jeffrey Richards

The Golden Age of Pantomime

Slapstick, Spectacle and Subversion in Victorian England

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Of all the theatrical genres most prized by the Victorians, pantomime is the only one to have survived continuously into the twenty-first century. It remains as true today as it was in the 1830s, that a visit to the pantomime constitutes the first theatrical experience of most children and now, as then, a successful pantomime season is the key to the financial health of most theatres. Everyone went to the pantomime, from Queen Victoria and the royal family to the humblest of her subjects. It appealed equally to West End and East End, to London and the provinces, to both sexes and all ages. Many Victorian luminaries were devotees of the pantom… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-85772-472-4
  • EAN: 9780857724724
  • Produktnummer: 30159024
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 456 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 3'506 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage
  • Abbildungen: 27 bw integrated

Über den Autor


Jeffrey Richards is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Lancaster and a leading authority on Victorian popular culture, the Victorian theatre and twentieth century cinema. His study of Henry Irving (Hambledon 2005) was shortlisted for the Theatre History Book Prize. He is a regular reviewer and broadcaster.

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