by Annette Rubery | Dec 20, 2023 | Shakespeare
A Festive Shakespeare at The Garrick Inn, Stratford-upon-Avon. A big thank you for reading my blog this year. I have been trying to hook it up to a subscription email service which I am finding impossible to make work properly, so a double thank-you for finding it in...
by Annette Rubery | Dec 12, 2021 | Theatre History
David Garrick by Nathaniel Dance-Holland. © Folger Shakespeare Library. Pantomime has a long and complex history but was well underway as a form of popular entertainment in Britain by the middle of the eighteenth century. With its roots in commedia dell’arte, it...
