Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jonathan Buckmaster

Titel

Pantomime and Pantomime Clowning

Ist Teil von

• Dickens's Clowns, 2019, p.15

Ort / Verlag

Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter describes the conceptions of pantomime and clowning that inform the rest of this study, focusing on the forms that Dickens would have known, firstly a child and then later as an equally enthusiastic adult spectator. After sketching a brief history of pantomime up to the time of Dickens’s death, I trace a similar chronological development of its principal protagonist, the clown, who for Dickens was the most interesting and important character. I will also briefly delineate the figure of the Shakespearean clown, who was another attractive figure for Dickens, being the most significant incarnation of the English stage