The Golden Age of Pantomime: Slapstick, Spectacle and Subversion in Victorian England

by Jeffrey Richards

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780762933
• ISBN13: 9781780762937
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 8.9"