International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
remembered that the boundary between recreational drama and children’s theatre is ill defined. Summer productions in London by t ...
of young people taking their first steps in show business. There are many popular images of ‘making, performing and responding’ ...
The Beverley play was performed by masked actors, as usual... The play at Beverley was apparently ‘in the round’, since the crow ...
liturgical drama Officium Pastorum at Rouen in the Middle Ages: ‘After the Te Deum five canons or vicars, representing the sheph ...
1779–1780. Madame de Genlis, who followed the educational theories of Rousseau, made theatre a central experience for the childr ...
complex theatrical phenomenon which persists in its ambiguities to the present day. On the one hand, pantomimes became specifica ...
Many of the most memorable experiences of drama for modern children have been television adaptations of such books as John Masef ...
the less important children’s theatre companies, such as Bertha Waddell’s Scottish Children’s Theatre, innovators such as these ...
conceived and uncompromisingly at one with mainstream postwar theatre, yet wholly accessible to children (and once again requiri ...
References Axton, R. (1974) European Drama of the Early Middle Ages, London: Hutchinson. Barrie, J.M. (1995) Peter Pan and Other ...
18 The Development of Illustrated Texts and Picture Books Joyce Irene Whalley Children learn to read pictures before they learn ...
fraction of the cost of the better class adult book. This fact is in itself indicative of the attitude at that time to children’ ...
By the end of the eighteenth century the idea of illustrated books for children had become established and some of their authors ...
By the 1830s there were various methods of illustration in use in children’s books, which were now being produced in considerabl ...
was known to be a friend of the Prince Consort, and later became the first Director of the South Kensington Museum (later the Vi ...
can be attributed to known illustrators, and some must have been done by hack workers employed for the job. But these booklets w ...
But surely dominating the mid-1860s and early 1870s we must consider the two Alice books by Lewis Carroll. Here we have perhaps ...
illustrator. This is particularly evident in his ‘toy books’, where contemporary motifs— the fan, the sunflower, the general air ...
to illustrate, and also because his very personal style invited imitation. Even today it is possible to describe a woodland scen ...
illustration was the use of silhouette: it was to be found in works as diverse as Rudyard Kipling’s illustrations to his own Jus ...
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