The golden age of pantomime : slapstick, spectacle and subversion in Victorian England /

In Victorian England, everyone went to the pantomime, from Queen Victoria and her family to the humblest of her subjects. The English Pantomime is one of the most popular, least examined of all theatrical forms. It has been the festive mainstay of the English stage since the eighteenth century, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Richards, Jeffrey (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : New York : I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Subjects:	Pantomime > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Pantomime (Christmas entertainment) > History > 19th century. Performing arts > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Theater > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)

Table of Contents:

Transformations
Harlequinade
Fairyland
James Robinson Planché and the classical extravaganza
James Robinson Planché and the Fairy extravaganza
William Roxby Beverley and the triumph of scene-painting
The Drury Lane Pantomime: the creators
E.L. Blanchard and the Drury Lane Pantomimes: the Smith management
E.L. Blanchard and the Drury Lane Pantomimes: the Chatterton management
Sir Augustus Harris and the battle for Pantomime.