The Christmas pantomime is what remains of the old harlequinade, the cauldron for physical comedy in 19th-century England.
Click here to read the whole NY Times article.
Click here to read about the harlequinade in my book Clowns.
The Fonz Does English Pantomime
POST 56
Saturday, January 16, 2010
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My first book (1976)
My book Clowns has long been out of print, but you can borrow it for two weeks at a time from the Internet Archive. More information is available here.
My second book (2015)
Visual and verbal humor for the cognitively and artistically curious! Available here.
“A book to treasure!”
—Bill Irwin