Harlequin Britain : pantomime and entertainment, 1690-1760 / John O'Brien.
| Author/creator | O'Brien, John, 1962- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. |
| Description | xxv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-263) and index. |
| LCCN | 2003021417 |
| ISBN | 0801879108 (alk. paper) |