The Victorian clown

• 作者: Bratton, J. S.
• 其他作者: Featherstone, Ann.
• 出版: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2006.
• 稽核項: xiii, 273 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
• 標題: Clowns Great Britain -- Biography. , Clowning , Clowns Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. , Clowns , Clowning Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. , Lawrence, Thomas. , Frowde, James. , History
• ISBN: 0521816661 , 9780521816663
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• 附註: 100年度教育部「獎勵大學教學卓越計畫」購藏. Includes bibliographical references and index. Pt. I. The Victorian circus -- 1. The Victorian clown -- 2. Victorian travelling shows -- 3. Circus buildings -- 4. A microhistory from two manuscripts -- Pt. II. The circus memoirs of James Frowde, a Victorian clown -- 1. Childhood and youth, 1831-1846 -- 2. Running away to join the circus, 1847-1849 -- 3. Out into the world to learn his trade, 1849 -- 4. At last a clown with Hengler's, 1849-1851 -- 5. A spell with Cooke's circus, 1851 -- 6. The end of the story, 1851-1857 -- Pt. III. Thomas Lawrence's repertoire : popular humour unmediated -- Pt. IV. The 1871 gagbook of Thomas Lawrence.
• 摘要: "The Victorian Clown is a microhistory of mid-Victorian comedy, spun out of the life and work of two professional clowns. Their previously unpublished manuscripts - James Erowde's account of his young life with the famous Hengler's Circus in the 1850s and Thomas Lawrence's 1871 gagbook - offer unique, unmediated access to the grass roots of popular entertainment. Through them this book explores the role of the circus clown at the height of equestrian entertainment in Britain, when the comic managed audience attention for the riders and acrobats, parodying their skills in his own tumbling and contortionism, and also offered a running commentary on the times through his own 'wheezes' - stand-up comedy sets. Plays in the ring connect the circus to the stage, and since both these men were also comic singers, their careers give a sharp insight into popular music just as it was being transformed by the new institution of music hall."--BOOK JACKET.
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