Harlequin Britain : pantomime and entertainment, 1690-1760 /
O'Brien, John, 1962-
Harlequin Britain : pantomime and entertainment, 1690-1760 / John O'Brien. - Johns Hopkins paperback edition. - xxv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-263) and index.
Chapter 1. Perseus and Andromeda and the meaning of eighteenth-century pantomime -- Chapter 2. Pantomime, popular culture, and the invention of the "English stage" -- Chapter 3. Wit corporeal : theater, embodiment, and the spectator -- Chapter 4. Magic and mimesis : Harlequin Doctor Faustus and the modernity of English pantomime -- Entr'acte : why is Harlequin's face black? -- Chapter 5. Infamous Harlequin mimicry : apprentices, entertainment and the mass audience -- Chapter 6. Harlequin Walpole : pantomime, Fielding, and the theater of state in the 1730s -- Chapter 7. David Garrick and the institutionalization of English pantomime.
142141693X 9781421416939
Pantomime--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Pantomime--History--Great Britain--17th century.
792.3809033
Harlequin Britain : pantomime and entertainment, 1690-1760 / John O'Brien. - Johns Hopkins paperback edition. - xxv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-263) and index.
Chapter 1. Perseus and Andromeda and the meaning of eighteenth-century pantomime -- Chapter 2. Pantomime, popular culture, and the invention of the "English stage" -- Chapter 3. Wit corporeal : theater, embodiment, and the spectator -- Chapter 4. Magic and mimesis : Harlequin Doctor Faustus and the modernity of English pantomime -- Entr'acte : why is Harlequin's face black? -- Chapter 5. Infamous Harlequin mimicry : apprentices, entertainment and the mass audience -- Chapter 6. Harlequin Walpole : pantomime, Fielding, and the theater of state in the 1730s -- Chapter 7. David Garrick and the institutionalization of English pantomime.
142141693X 9781421416939
Pantomime--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Pantomime--History--Great Britain--17th century.
792.3809033