Children and theatre in Victorian Britain : 'all work, no play' / Anne Varty.
The cult of the child performer was a significant emergence of the Victorian age. Nurtured by growing mass media, the commodification of these children extended beyond the stage itself into merchandising and celebrity. Victorian theatre children found themselves not merely baubles in a spectacle, bu...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Training Juvenile Actors
- Looking-Glass Children: The Performing Child as Erotic Subject
- Pastorals and Primitives: Child Actors in Arcadia
- Classifying the Juvenile Actor
- Theatre Children and the School Boards
- Vigilance and Virtue
- Theatre and Cruelty
- Conclusion: Dressing Up
- Appendix A: List of Child Actors in Lewis Carroll's Diaries and Letters
- Appendix B: National Vigilance Association, Regulations for Employment of Children in Theatres.