TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richards,Jeffrey
TI  - The golden age of pantomime: slapstick, spectacle and subversion in Victorian England 
T2  - Drama & performance studies
SN  - 1350182362
AV  - PN1987.G7 R53 2020
U1  - 792.38094109034 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Methuen Drama
KW  - Pantomime (Christmas entertainment)
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
N1  - First published in 2015 by I.B. Tauris; P.B; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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. Many Victorian luminaries were devotees of the pantomime, notably among them John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll and W.E. Gladstone. In this vivid and evocative account of the Victorian pantomime, Jeffrey Richards examines the potent combination of slapstick, spectacle and subversion that ensured the enduring popularity of the form
ER  -