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ESCAPIST CATHARSIS: REPRESENTATION, OBJECTIFICATION, AND PARODY ON THE PANTOMIME STAGE

Kallemeyn, Rebecca
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211920375

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2008, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Theatre.
British turn-of-the-century pantomime has a reputation as light, inconsequentialentertainment, and so has received little attention from theatre scholars in the past. But as one of the most popular, lucrative theatrical forms of the period, pantomime is in an ideal position to reflect and comment upon its creating culture. This thesis undertakes a close analysis of a typical pantomime, J. Hickory Wood and Arthur Collins' The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast, performed from 1900-1901. The performance styles, plot structures, and scenic designs of this particular pantomime reveal and examine a society in transition, obsessed with objects and objectification, and increasingly reliant on image and representation rather than substance. The play provides a simultaneously cathartic and escapist outlet for ambivalence toward continuing cultural upheaval, playing a vital role in moderating the anxieties of turn-of-the-century Londoners.
Beth Kattelman, PhD (Advisor)
Dorothy Noyes, PhD (Committee Member)
87 p.
Theater
pantomime; Victorian pantomime; objectification; theatricality; sleeping beauty and the beast; British theatre; Victorian theatre; literalism; monarchy; democracy; catharsis; illusion; transformation; Wood; Collins; Dan Leno

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  • Kallemeyn, R. (2008). ESCAPIST CATHARSIS: REPRESENTATION, OBJECTIFICATION, AND PARODY ON THE PANTOMIME STAGE [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211920375

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kallemeyn, Rebecca. ESCAPIST CATHARSIS: REPRESENTATION, OBJECTIFICATION, AND PARODY ON THE PANTOMIME STAGE. 2008. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211920375.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kallemeyn, Rebecca. "ESCAPIST CATHARSIS: REPRESENTATION, OBJECTIFICATION, AND PARODY ON THE PANTOMIME STAGE." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211920375

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