Jennifer Schacker

Broschiertes Buch

Staging Fairyland

Folklore, Children's Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime

Beschreibung

Examines pantomime and theatricality in nineteenth-century histories of folklore and the fairy tale. In nineteenth-century Britain, the spectacular and highly profitable theatrical form known as â pantomimeâ was part of a shared cultural repertoire and a significant medium for the transmission of stories, especially fairy tales.

Autor

Jennifer Schacker is associate professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph and the author of National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England Her collaborations with Christine A. Jones include Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical Perspectives and Feathers, Paws, Fins, and Claws: Fairy-Tale Beasts (Wayne State University Press, 2015).

Produktdetails

• Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
• Verlag: Wayne State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780814345900
• ISBN-10: 0814345905
• Artikelnr.: 51389061