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A History of Pantomime by R. J. Broadbent
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Pantomimes--The prejudice against Pantomimes--Booth's
counsel


CHAPTER XV.

John Rich and his Pantomimes--Rich's Miming--Garrick,
Walpole, Foote--Anecdotes of Rich--Pope--The dance
of internals in "Harlequin Sorcerer"--Drury Lane--Colley
Cibber--Henry Fielding, the Novelist--Contemporary
Writers' opinion of Pantomime--Woodward, the
Harlequin--The meaning of the word Actor--Harlequins--"Dr.
Faustus," a description--William
Rufus Chetwood--Accidents--Vandermere, the Harlequin--"Orpheus
and Eurydice" at Covent Garden--A
description--Sam. Hoole, the machinist--Prejudice
against Pantomime--Mrs. Oldfield--Robert Wilks--Macklin--Riot
at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre--Death of Rich


CHAPTER XVI.

Joseph Grimaldi


CHAPTER XVII.

Plots of the old form of Pantomimes--A description of
"Harlequin and the Ogress; or the Sleeping
Beauty of the Wood," produced at Covent Garden--Grimaldi,
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