Harlequin Britain : pantomime and entertainment, 1690-1760 / John O'Brien.
Edition: Johns Hopkins paperback editionDescription: xxv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN: 142141693X; 9781421416939Subject(s): Pantomime -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | Pantomime -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th centuryDDC classification: 792.3809033
Contents:
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.
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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.