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

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The English pantomime is one of the most popular, least analysed of all theatrical forms.

It's been the festive mainstay of the English stage since the 18th century, and it has survived by its ability to evolve.

This continual evolution is traced by Jeffrey Richards in this history of panto through its 'Golden Age' in Victorian England.

He explores the spectacle, the slapstick and the talent for subversion that 19th-century pantomime had - and still has in different ways.

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I. B. Tauris
085772472X / 9780857724724
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
23/10/2014
United Kingdom
English
457 pages
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