Victorian Pantomime

1. Introduction: Victorian Pantomime
Jim Davis

Part 1. The Golden Age of Pantomime: The Mid-Victorian Period

2. E. L. Blanchard and ‘The Golden Age of Pantomime’
Jeffrey Richards

3. ‘Arcadias of Pantomime’: Ruskin, Pantomime, and The Illustrated London News
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman

4. Lewis Carroll, E. L. Blanchard and Frank W. Green
Richard Foulkes

5. Harlequin Encore: Sixty Years of the Britannia Pantomime
Janice Norwood

Part 2. Pantomime, Representation and Ideology

6. Pantomime and the Experienced Young Fellow
Jacky Bratton

7. ‘Only an Undisciplined [Nation] would have done it’: Drury Lane Pantomime in the Late Nineteenth Century
Jim Davis

8. Dan Leno: Dame of Drury Lane
Caroline Radcliffe

Part 3. Provincial Pantomime

9. Mapping the Place of Pantomime in a Victorian Town
Jo Robinson

10. ‘Local and political hits’: Allusion and Collusion in the Local Pantomime
Jill A. Sullivan

11. ‘Holding up the mirror’: Readership and Authorship in the Era’s Pantomime Reviews from the 1870s
Ann Featherstone

Part 4. The Legacy of Victorian Pantomime

12. Continuity and Transformation in Twentieth-century Pantomime
Millie Taylor

13. Victorian Pantomime on Twentieth-century Film
David Mayer

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre History, Environment, general, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies, Performing Arts