Victorian Pantomime

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Victorian Pantomime; J.Davis PART I: THE GOLDEN AGE OF PANTOMIME: THE MID-VICTORIAN PERIOD E. L. Blanchard and 'The Golden Age of Pantomime'; J.Richards 'Arcadias of Pantomime': Ruskin, Pantomime, and the Illustrated London News;  S.A.Weltman Lewis Carroll, E.L. Blanchard and Frank W. Green; R.Foulkes Harlequin Encore: Sixty Years of the Britannia Pantomime; J.Norwood PART II: PANTOMIME, REPRESENTATION AND IDEOLOGY Pantomime and the Experienced Young Fellow; J.Bratton 'Only an Undisciplined (Nation) would have done it': Drury Lane Pantomime in the Late Nineteenth Century; J.Davis Dan Leno: Dame of Drury Lane; C.Radcliffe PART III: PROVINCIAL PANTOMIME Mapping the Place of Pantomime in a Victorian Town; J.Robinson 'Local and Political Hits': Allusion and Collusion in the Local Pantomime; J.Sullivan 'Holding up the Mirror': Readership and Authorship in the Era's Pantomime Reviews from the 1870s; A.Featherstone PART IV: THE LEGACY OF VICTORIAN PANTOMIME Continuity and Transformation in Twentieth Century Pantomime; M.Taylor Victorian Pantomime on Film; D.Mayer Selected Bibliography Index