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Pantomime

Here are entered works on plays or entertainments in which the performers express themselves by mute gestures, often to the accompaniment of music. Collections of pantomimes are entered under Pantomimes.

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• Drama
• Musical theater

• Mime
• Ballet

• Pantomime -- Early works to 1800
• Pantomime -- France
• Pantomime -- Librettos
• Pantomime -- United States
• Happenings (Art)
• Pantomime (Christmas entertainment)
• Pantomime in literature
• Pantomime, English

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• Gesture and pantomimic action by Florence A. Fowle Adams. (E.S. Werner, 1891), by Florence Adelaide Fowle Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of pantomime (H. Holt, 1927), by Charles Aubert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The theory of theatrical dancing; with a chapter on pantomime (F. Verinder, 1888), by Carlo Blasis and Stewart D. Headlam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenirs de Funambules (Michel Lévy frères, 1859), by Champfleury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le geste ... Illustrations de Lanos. (E. Flammarion, 1892), by Charles Hacks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pantomimes for stage and study (D. Appleton and company, 1931), by T. Earl Pardoe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A preliminary study of the interpretation of bodily expression (Teachers college, Columbia university, 1933), by William Harold Blake (page images at HathiTrust)
• The technique of pantomime (The Sather gate book shop, 1927), by Florence Lutz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur entwicklungsgeschichte des melodrams und mimodrams (C. F. W. Siegel (R. Linnemann), 1918), by Max Steinitzer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of pantomime. (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co., ltd., 1901), by R. J. Broadbent (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Mimus; ein litterar-entwickelungsgeschichtlicher Versuch (Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1903), by Hermann Reich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of the harlequinade (J. B. Lippincott company;, 1915), by Maurice Sand (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of the harlequinade. (M.Secker, 1915), by Maurice Sand (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Comical fellows (J.H. Thomson, 1863), by Andrew Halliday (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comical fellows : or The history and mystery of the patomine, with some curiosities and droll anecdotes concerning clown and pantaloon, harlequin and columbine. (J. H. Thomason, 1863), by Andrew Halliday (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mimes. (London School of Dramatic Art, 1900), by Mary Gertrude Pickersgill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De saltationibus Graecorum armatis. (A. Toepelmann, 1913), by Kurt Latte (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'art mimique, suivi d'un traité de la pantomime et du ballet. 200 dessins par l'auteur. (E. Meuriot, 1901), by Charles Aubert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Mimus; ein litterar-entwickelungsgeschichtlicher Versuch. 1. Band, 1. Teil: Theorie des Mimus. (Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1903), by Hermann Reich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Teatro de Pierrot (Editorial "Mundo latino", 1920), by Enrique Gómez Carrillo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Plays, pantomimes and tableaux for children (Moffat, Yard & company, 1917), by Nora Archibald Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pantomimes moderne (Ernest Flammarion, 1800), by Charles Aubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Mime : die Kunst des Schauspielers und Opernsängers (Schuster & Loeffler, 1918), by Carl Hagemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Masques et bouffons (comédie italienne) : texte et dessins (Michel Lévy frères, 1860), by Maurice Sand and Alexandre Manceau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le geste (Librairie Marpon et Flammarion, 1900), by Charles Hacks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zum manne mit dem eselskopf. ([Berlin, 1905), by Hermann Reich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Scoperta della chironomia (Per li Fratelli Gozzi, 1797), by Vincenzo Requeno and Fratelli Gozzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads in black : a series of original shadow pantomimes : with forty-eight full-page silhouette illustrations and full directions for producting shadow pictures with novel effects (Walter H. Baker & Co., 1881), by F. E. Chase and J. F. Goodridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Retour d'Arlequin. (A. Hennuyer, 1887), by Raoul de Najac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Mimus; ein litterar-entwickelungsgeschichtlicher Versuch. Bd. 1. (Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1903), by Hermann Reich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'art mimique, suivi d'un traité de la pantomime et du ballet. (E. Meuriot, 1901), by Charles Aubert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De ludis scenicis mimorum, & pantomimorum (Typis Seminarii, apud Joannem Manfrè, 1713), by Niccolò Calliachi, Alessandro dalla Via, and Marcantonio Madero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studi sulle arti imitatrici (Giuseppe Chiusi, 1844), by Carlo Blasis and Domenico Fabris (page images at HathiTrust)
• La musique et la pantomime ... (E. Kolb, 1892), by Paul Hugounet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abhandlung von den Pantomimen, historisch und critisch ausgeführt. (Bey Carl Samuel Geissler, 1749), by Johann Mattheson and Jonas Haas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches historiques et critiques sur quelques anciens spectacles, et particulierement sur les mimes et sur les pantomimes : avec des notes. (Chez Jacques Merigot, fils ..., 1751), by Claude-François-Félix Boulenger de Rivery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elementi di mimica (Da placido Maria Visaj, 1829), by Domenico Buffelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• De pantomimis et mimis (Svmtibvs Godofredi Freytagii ..., 1714), by Ottavio Ferrari, Johann Fabricius, Johann Philipp Slevogt, and Jacobo Facciolati (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pierrot inconstant : pantomime en un acte (Lemercier et Alliot, 1893), by Jean Philippe and Emile Paloumet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interpretations of music : through rhythm band, rhythmic pantomime and dance (Bull & Sutton, 1927), by Ruth Durheim and J. B. Merrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of Pantomime, by R. J. Broadbent (Gutenberg ebook)

• Scoperta della chironomia (Per li Fratelli Gozzi, 1797), by Vincenzo Requeno and Fratelli Gozzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la saltation théatrale (Chez Barrois l'aîné, libraire ..., 1790), by M. de L'Aulnaye, Jacques-Gabriel Clousier, and Louis-François Barrois (page images at HathiTrust)

• Souvenirs d'un mime. (Émile-Paul, 1909), by Raoul de Najac (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• White cat, or, Harlequin in Fairy Wood (Printed by Lowndes & Hobbs, Marquis Court, Drury-Lane, 1812), by Henry Smart, James Kirby, Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), Lowndes & Hobbs, and England) Lyceum Theatre (London (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tableaux, charades and pantomimes, adapted alike to parlor entertainments, school and church exhibitions and for use on the amateur stage. (Penn Pub. Co., 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)

• English Composition as a Happening (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), by Geoffrey Michael Sirc (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• English composition as a happening (Utah State University Press, 2002), by Geoffrey Michael Sirc (page images at HathiTrust)

• Private theatricals etc. (London : [various publishers], 1863-1875., 1863), by Charles Millward, Martin Dutnall, and Samuel French & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• Programme of the scenery and incidents with the dialogue &c. of the new grand Christmas pantomime, called Harlequin traveller, or, The world inside out (Published by W. Kenneth, 1832), by Richard Hughes, W. Kenneth, S. G. Fairbrother, Matthew Howell, Clarkson Stanfield, Gaetano Marinari, M. J. Hollogan, Robert C. Andrews, Mr. Adams, and Drury Lane Theatre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Davy Jones (Published by W. Kenneth, at his Dramatic Repository, corner of Bow Street, Covent Garden, 1830), by W. Barrymore, William Kenneth, Richard Hughes, Nineteenth-century English Pantomime Plays Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), and Drury Lane Theatre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charades in action (D. Bogue, 86 Fleet Street, 1850), by Augustus Mayhew, David Bogue, Henry Vizetelly, Henry Mayhew, and Henry George Hine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harlequin Jack Sheppard : a comic pantomime, written expressly for, and adapted only to Skelt's characters & scenes in the same. (Printed and published by B. Skelt, in the 1850s), by B. Skelt and Victoria and Albert Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• KPT (Andrew Melrose, 1917), by Frank Kenchington and 85th Great Britain. Army. Field Ambulance (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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