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Staging Fairyland : Folklore, Children's Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime /
In nineteenth-century Britain, the spectacular and highly profitable theatrical form known as "pantomime" was part of a shared cultural repertoire and a significant medium for the transmission of stories. Rowdy, comedic, and slightly risque, pantomime productions were situated in dynamic r...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Detroit, Michigan :
Wayne State University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In nineteenth-century Britain, the spectacular and highly profitable theatrical form known as "pantomime" was part of a shared cultural repertoire and a significant medium for the transmission of stories. Rowdy, comedic, and slightly risque, pantomime productions were situated in dynamic relationship with various forms of print and material culture. Popular fairy-tale theater also informed the production and reception of folklore research in ways that are often overlooked. In Staging Fairyland: Folklore, Children's Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime, Jennifer Schacker reclaims the place of theatrical performance in this history, developing a model for the intermedial and cross-disciplinary study of narrative cultures |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource: illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780814345924 |