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Introduction / Jim Davis

The golden age of pantomime. The mid-Victorian period : E. L. Blanchard and "the golden age of pantomime" / Jeffrey Richards

"Arcadias of pantomime" : Ruskin, pantomime, and The Illustrated London news / Sharon Aronofsky Weltman

Lewis Carroll, E. L. Blanchard and Frank W. Green / Richard Foulkes

Harlequin encore : sixty years of the Britannia pantomime / Janice Norwood

Pantomime, representation and ideology. Pantomime and the experienced young fellow / Jacky Bratton

'Only an undisciplined (nation) would have done it': Drury Lane pantomime in the late nineteenth century / Jim Davis

Dan Leno: dame of Drury Lane / Caroline Radcliffe

Provincial pantomime. Mapping the place of pantomime in a Victorian town / Jo Robinson

'Local and political hits': allusion and collusion in the local pantomime / Jill Sullivan

'Holding up the mirror' : readership and authorship in the era's pantomime reviews from the 1870s / Ann Featherstone

The legacy of Victorian pantomime. Continuity and transformation in twentieth century pantomime / Millie Taylor

Victorian pantomime on twentieth century film / David Mayer.