The Golden Age of Pantomime
The Golden Age of Pantomime Of all the theatrical genres most prized by the Victorians, pantomime is the only one to have survived continuously into the twenty-first century. Everyone went to the…
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The Golden Age of Pantomime
Of all the theatrical genres most prized by the Victorians, pantomime is the only one to have survived continuously into the twenty-first century. Everyone went to the pantomime, from Queen Victoria and the royal family to the humblest of her subjects. 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. It appealed equally to West End and East End, to London and the provinces, to both sexes and all ages. Gladstone.
In this vivid and evocative account of the Victorian pantomime, Jeffrey Richards examines the potent combination of slapstick, spectacle and subversion that
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