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"Dick Whittington" is a Victorian-era English pantomime written by the prominent 19th-century playwright Edward Leman Blanchard. Adapting the classic English folklore tale of a poor boy and his cat seeking fortune in London, the production is a notable example of 19th-century theatrical holiday ente...
Mother Goose is a Victorian pantomime written by English dramatist E. L. Blanchard, who became closely associated with the annual Christmas productions at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Like other works in the tradition, it adapted familiar nursery and fairy-tale material for a theatrical mixture of...
Little Red Riding Hood is an English pantomime adaptation by E. L. Blanchard of the European fairy tale about a girl, a forest journey, and a wolf. It is associated with Victorian British theatre and with the Drury Lane pantomime tradition, where familiar stories were expanded through music, comedy,...
