Featuring contributions by new and established nineteenth-century theatre scholars, this collection of critical essays is the first of its kind devoted solely to Victorian pantomime. It takes us through the various manifestations of British pantomime in the Victorian period and its ambivalent relationship with Victorian values.

New and established nineteenth-century theatre scholars examine the various manifestations of British pantomime in the Victorian period and its ambivalent relationship with Victorian values

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