Harlequin Britain : pantomime and entertainment, 1690-1760 / John O'Brien.

Author/creator O'Brien, John, 1962-
Format Book
Publication InfoBaltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Descriptionxxv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents Perseus and Andromeda and the meaning of eighteenth-century pantomime -- Pantomime, popular culture, and the invention of the "English stage" -- Wit corporeal : theater, embodiment, and the spectator -- Magic and mimesis : Harlequin Doctor Faustus and the modernity of English pantomime -- Entr'acte : why is Harlequin's face black? -- Infamous Harlequin mimicry : apprentices, entertainment and the mass audience -- Harlequin Walpole : pantomime, Fielding, and the theater of state in the 1730s -- David Garrick and the institutionalization of English pantomime.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-263) and index.
LCCN 2003021417
ISBN0801879108 (alk. paper)