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The Victorian Clown - Bratton, Jacky, and Featherstone, Ann
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The Victorian Clown, first published in 2006, is a micro-history of mid-Victorian comedy, spun out of the life and work of two professional clowns. Their previously unpublished manuscripts - James Frowde's account of his young life with the famous Henglers' circus in the 1850s and Thomas Lawrence's 1871 gag book - offer unique,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 ...

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The Victorian Clown 2014, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781107666672

Trade paperback

The Victorian Clown 2006, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521816663

Hardcover