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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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• Pantomimes -- Juvenile fiction
• Pantomimes, English

• 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)
• Pantomimes; or, Wordless poems. (New York, E. S. Werner, 1895), by Mary Tucker Magill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dédale et ses statues : danse pantomime, donnée dans le palais de Son Altesse Royale, monseigneur le prince Ferdinand de Prusse, le 23. mars 1802 / (Berlin : Chez J.D. Sander, 1802), by Aloys Hirt and G. Mila (page images at HathiTrust)
• A full and accurate description of the popular romance of Blue-Beard; or, Female curiosity. (London, T. and R. Hughes, 1808), by George Colman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seasonal fesivals and pageants : spring pantomime / (Chicago : Clayton F. Summy, co., c1916), by Mari Ruef Hofer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Five plays and five pantomimes, (Philadelphia : The Penn Pub. Co., 1922), by Sidney Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love under obstacles, a parlor pantomime ... (New York, Dick & Fitsgerald, [1901?]), by Bob O'Link (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rock-a-by Lady; (Chicago : Dramatic Pub. Co., c1910), by Adelaide Westcott Hatch and Eugene Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• The children in the wood : or, Harlequin Queen Mab and the world of dreams : grand comic Christmas annual / (London : Tuck & Co., 1872), by E. L. Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aladdin; or, The naughty young scamp who ran off with the lamp. ([London] : Haycock printer, [1897]), by Hayes Evans and Stanley. Aladdin Rogers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Acting charades, or, Deeds not words : a Christmas game to make a long evening short / (London : D. Bogue, 86 Fleet Street, [between 1850 and 1857?), by Augustus Mayhew, Henry Vizetelly, Henry Mayhew, and Henry George Hine, contrib. by David Bogue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grand Christmas pantomime, entitled Gulliver's travels : or, harlequin Prince Rover, and the Princess Tricksy Wicksy., by Henry J. Byron (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pantomimes; or, Wordless poems. (New York, E. S. Werner, 1895), by Mary Tucker Magill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pantomime primer / (New York : American Book Co., c1914), by Emma Gertrude White (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Pantomimes, 1868]. (1868), by Charles. Harlequin and the long pack Daly, John Strachan, Jas. Dear little children's pantomime for 1868-9 Shepley, William Brough, W. J. Babes in the wood Thompson, Charles Millward, E. R. Mother Bunch and her 40 children Jones, H. T. Arden, Alfred Davis, Wm. Let Glasgow flourish Low, Frederick. Bluff King Hal Marchant, Nelson. Bluff King Hal Lee, R. Aladdin Soutar, John T. Tell tale tit Douglass, J. R. Planché, Henry J. Byron, and E. L. Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rubaiyat [a pantomime]. (New York : E. S. Werner Publishing & Supply Co., 1903), by Omar Khayyam and Genevieve Stebbins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi / (London : R. Bentley, 1846), by Joseph Grimaldi, Jacob Henry Burn, Charles Whitehead, Richard Brinsley Peake, Charles Kemble, and Charles Dickens, contrib. by Augustin Daly, illust. by George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sardanapal; grosse historische pantomime in 3 akten oder 4 bildern, ([Berlin, Greve, 1909?]), by Friedrich Delitzsch and Paul Taglioni (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Conrad and Medora : or, Harlequin corsair, and the little fairy at the bottom of the sea : a new Christmas burlesque and pantomime / (London : T. H. Lacy, 1856), by William Brough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scoperta della chironomia, ossia Dell'arte di gestire con le mani / (Parma : Fratelli Gozzi, 1797), by Vincenzo Requeno (page images at HathiTrust)
• The child's book of plays; Mother Goose in pantomime, (Boston, New York [etc.] : Educational publishing company, [c1915]), by Elise Williamson Phifer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little King Pippin, or, Harlequin Fortunatus and the magic purse and wishing cap : grand comic Christmas pantomime / (London : J. Tuck, 1865), by E. L. Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern pantomime entertainments : for teen ages, adults and grammar grades / (Chicago : T.S. Denison & Co., c1938), by Effa E. Preston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Humpty Dumpty: a pantomime in a prologue and one act. (Chicago, The Dramatic Publishing Company, [1910?]), by John Denier (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art mimique, suivi d'un traité de la pantomime et du ballet. 200 dessins par l'auteur. (Paris, E. Meuriot, 1901), by Charles Aubert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Parlor varieties. Part three. Plays, pantomimes, and charades. (Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1887), by Olivia Lovell Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drawing-room plays and parlour pantomimes / (London : S. Rivers and Co., 1870), by Clement Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aladdin and the wonderful lamp, or, Harlequin and the flying palace : a pantomime / ([London] : Published and sold in the Theatre, [1865?]), by E. L. Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• ... Mimes et pierrots; notes et documents inédits pour servir à l'histoire de la pantomime. (Paris, Fischbacher, 1889), by Paul Hugounet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petit traité de pantomime à l'usage des gens du monde. (Paris, A. Hennuyer, 1887), by Raoul de Najac and Raoul de. Retour d'Arlequin Najac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pierrot volage : pantomime-ballet / (Paris : Paul Ollendorff, 1886), by L. C. Desormes and J. Gayda (page images at HathiTrust)
• La lune : fantaisie-pantomime en un acte et trois tableaux / (Paris : Librairie théatrale, 1890), by Edmond Audran and Fernand Beissier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doctoresse! : pantomime en un acte / (Paris : Maurice Dreyfous, [1891?]), by Edmond Missa, Jules Maurice Le Natur, G. Villeneuve, and Paul Hugounet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pierrot, assassin de sa femme : pantomime / (Paris : Calmann Lévy, 1886), by Paul Margueritte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pantomimes de Gaspard et Ch. Deburau / (Paris : E. Dentu, 1889), by Jean Gaspard Deburau, Émile Goby, and Charles Deburau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conflict; a health masque in pantomime, (New York, A. S. Barnes, 1921), by Gertrude K. Colby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pantomimes for stage and study, (New York, London, D. Appleton and company, 1931), by T. Earl Pardoe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Clowns & pantomimes, (Boston New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1925), by Maurice Willson Disher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pantomimes for the children's theatre, (New York, Brentano's, c1926), by M. A. Jagendorf (page images at HathiTrust)
• The grand comic Christmas pantomime entitled hey - diddle - diddle, the cat and the fiddle! or, the clock & the spoon ; and the nice old cow that jumped over the moon /, by Morris Abrahams and London East London Theatre (Whitechapel Road (page images at HathiTrust)

• The rose and the ring, or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo (London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1891), by William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at Florida)

• Aladdin; or, The naughty young scamp who ran off with the lamp. ([London] : Haycock printer, [1897]), by Hayes Evans and Stanley. Aladdin Rogers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nip Van Winkle and the demon Slumber of twenty years; or, King Neptune & the dancing princess. ([London], [1871?]), by Frederick Marchant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cock-a-doodle-doo; or, Harlequin Prince Chanticleer, and the Princess of the Golden Valley. A new and original comic Christmas pantomim [sic], (London, Merser and Gardner, [1865]), by Charles Millward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jack in the box; or, Harlequin, Little Tom Tucker and the three wise men of Gotham. Grand comic Christmas pantomime. (London, Tuck & Co., 1873), by E. L. Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Masquerades, Tableaux and Drills, by Butterick Publishing Company (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Tableaux from Alabama history, based on History stories of Alabama, by Mrs. Pitt Lamar Matthews. Copyrighted ... by Lawrence Lee, Jr. (Montgomery, Ala., The Paragon Press, 1922), by Lawrence Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of tableaux and shadow pantomimes ... together with directions for arranging the stage ... (New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, [1869]), by S. Annie Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of tableaux and shadow pantomines : containing a choice collection of tableaux vivants, or living pictures, embracing moving tableaux, charades in tableaux ... : together with directions for arranging the stage, costuming the characters, and forming appropriate groups, to which are added a number of shadow acts and pantomines, with complete stage instruction / by Sarah Annie Frost. (New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, c1869), by S. Annie Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• An evening of statuary and tableaux : a summer evening's entertainment, by G. B. Bartlett. (Boston : Walter H. Baker & Co., c1888), by George Bradford Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Home pastimes : or tableaux vivants / (Boston : J. E. Tilton, 1860), by James H. Head (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Jarley's far-famed collection of waxworks, (London, New York, S. French, [1873-89]), by George Bradford Bartlett and W. Gurney Benham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tableau and pantomime entertainments, for school or public performance, (Boston, W.H. Baker & co., 1914), by Clara Etta Cooper, Laura Matilda Stephenson Parsons, and Bertha Currier Porter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bethlehem tableaux from behind the scenes : with practical hints and illustrations / (London : [publisher not identified], 1913), by John K. C. Chesshire (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Young people's speaker; being a choice treasury of new and popular recitations, readings, dialogues, original and adapted, comedies, tableaux ... including descriptive, dramatic, pathetic, humorous recitals ... for schools, lodges, public entertainments ... ([Philadelphia, National Pub. Co., cop. 1900]), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bethlehem tableaux as played in a Somersetshire village ... (London, Society of SS. Peter & Paul, [1920?]), by Cynthia Rowena Starey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pictured readings and tableaux; shadow pictures, illustrated readings, tableaux, pantomimes; containing many novel and entirely original features. (Chicago, T.S. Denison & company, [c1915]), by Ellen Melville Willard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plays, pantomimes and tableaux for children, (New York, Moffat, Yard & company, 1917), by Nora Archibald Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marches and tableaux for degree work in Granges of the Patrons of Husbandry / (Boston : Geo. H. Ellis, 1920), by Sarah H. Holland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parlor tableaux and amateur theatricals / (Boston : J. E. Tilton, 1867, c1866), by William Fearing Gill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tableaux, charades and pantomimes, adapted alike to parlor entertainments, school and church exhibitions and for use on the amateur stage. (Philadelphia, Penn Pub. Co., 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)
• School and parlor tableaux : suitable for schools, the drawing-room, church entertainments, etc., etc., with full description of costumes and directions for production / (Chicago : T.S. Denison, c1879), by Sarah L. Stocking (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monthly catalogue / (New York : Eden Musée Americain Co.), by N.Y.) Eden Musée (New York (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Original dramas, dialogues, declamations and tableaux vivans [sic] for school exhibitions, May-day celebrations, and parlor amusement / (Louisville, Ky. : J.P. Morton, 1884, ©1867), by Russell Kavanaugh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated Ireland : from its first known discovery, 2855 B.C. to 1690 A.D, covering a period of 4545 years / (New Orleans, La. : Times-Democrat, 1884), by Mistick Krewe of Comus (Organization) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dramatized Readings: Recitations in Poetry and Prose, Illustrated with Tableaux: Preston Library No. 1, by Lucy A. Yendes (Gutenberg ebook)
• Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants, by James H. Head (Gutenberg ebook)

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