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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 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. The Secret Of Its Success, He Argues, Was Its Continual Evolution. It Acted As An Accurate Cultural Barometer Of Its Times, Directly Reflecting Current Attitudes, Beliefs And Preoccupations, And It Kept Up A Flow Of Instantly Recognisable Topical Allusions To
Who reads The Golden Age of Pantomime : Slapstick, Spectacle and Subversion in Victorian England?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jeffrey H Richards
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris; Bloomsbury
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781350182363
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Performing Arts, History, Sports