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Pantomimes

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

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• Tableaux

• The Mimes of Herondas, by Herodas, trans. by Mitchell S. Buck (HTML at elfinspell.com)
• Drawing-Room Plays and Parlour Pantomimes (London: S. River and Co., 1870), ed. by Clement Scott, contrib. by E. L. Blanchard, J. Palgrave Simpson, W. S. Gilbert, Tom Hood, Charles Smith Cheltnam, Robert Reece, Arthur Sketchley, Alfred Thompson, Thomas Archer, John C. Brough, J. Ashby-Sterry, Sidney Daryl, and A. B. (multiple formats at Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Masquerades, Tableaux and Drills, by Butterick Publishing Company (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Broken Words: A Fifth Century of Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Century of Charades (1894), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• More Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• Open Sesame: One Hundred Answers in Rhyme to William Bellamy's Century of Charades (Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1896), by Harlan Hoge Ballard (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Second Century of Charades (1896), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Third Century of Charades (1904), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)

• Historical Acting Charades: or, Amusements for Winter Evenings (new edition; London: Griffith and Farran, 1858), by Julia Charlotte Maitland (multiple formats at archive.org)