| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 284 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Series in fairy-tale studies |
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Series in fairy-tale studies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Advance praise for Staging Fairyland -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Fairies' Repertoire -- 1. Intermedial Magic: Text, Performance, Materiality -- 2. Fairy-Tale Sociability: Print and Performance in Folklore's Prehistory -- 3. Disciplining the Fairy Tale: The Unruly Genre in Folklore and Children's Literature -- 4. Fluid Identities: French Writers and English Fairy Mothers -- 5. Cross-Dressed Tales: The Performative Possibilities of Artifice and Excess -- Afterpiece: Dreams of Pantomime -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
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 risqué, 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 11, 2019) |
| Subject |
Fairy tales -- History and criticism
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Pantomimes.
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History & Criticism.
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Theater.
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PERFORMING ARTS.
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LITERARY CRITICISM.
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Pantomimes
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Fairy tales
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814345924 |
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0814345921 |
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