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Victorian Clown

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ISBN-10: 0521816661

ISBN-13: 9780521816663

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jacky Bratton, Ann Featherstone

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Previously unpublished manuscripts--James Frowde's account of his young life with the famous Henglers' circus in the 1850s and Thomas Lawrence's 1871 gag book--offer unique,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 generated audience attention for the riders and acrobats, by parodying their skills in his own tumbling and contortionism, and also offered a running commentary on the times through his own 'wheezes' or stand-up comedy sets.
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Book details

List price: $90.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/27/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Jacky Bratton is Professor of Theatre and Cultural History at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Ann Featherstone is Lecturer in Performance History at Manchester University. She is the author of several non-fiction books about the Victorian entertainment industry including The Victorian Clown, with Jacky Bratton. Both her novels, Walking in Pimlico and The Newgate Jig, are published by John Murray.

The Victorian circus
The Victorian clown
Victorian travelling shows
Circus buildings
A microhistory from two manuscripts
The circus memoirs of James Frowde, a Victorian clown
Childhood and youth, 1831-1846
Running away to join the circus, 1847-1849
Out into the world to learn his trade, 1849
At last a clown with Hengler's, 1849-1851
A spell with Cooke's circus, 1851
The end of the story, 1851-1857
Thomas Lawrence's repertoire : popular humour unmediated
The 1871 gagbook of Thomas Lawrence