talian
and French Harlequins--A French view of the English
Clown--Pierrots' origin--Pantaloon, how the name has
been derived--Columbine--Marionette and Puppet Shows

CHAPTER XIII.

Italian Scenarios and English "Platts"--Pantaloon--Tarleton,
the Clown--Extemporal Comedy--The Poet
Milton--Ben Jonson--The Commonwealth--"A Reign
of Dramatic Terror"--Robert Cox and his "Humours"
and "Drolleries"--The Restoration

CHAPTER XIV.

Introduction of Pantomimes to the English Stage--Weaver's
"History of the Mimes and Pantomimes"--Weaver's
Pantomimes--The prejudice against Pantomimes--Booth's
counsel

CHAPTER XV.

John Rich and his Pantomimes--Rich's Miming--Garrick,
Walpole, Foote--Anecdotes of Rich--Pope--The dance
of internals in "Harlequin Sorcerer"--Drury Lane--Colley
Cibber--Henry Fielding, the Novelist--Contemporary
Writers' opinion of Pantomime--Woodward, the
Harlequin--The meaning of the word Actor--Harlequins--"Dr.
Faustus," a description--William
Rufus Chetwood--Accidents--Vandermere, the Harlequin--"Orpheus
and Eurydice" at Covent Garden--A
description--Sam. Hoole, the machinist--Prejudice
against Pantomime--Mrs. Oldfield--Robert Wilks--Macklin--Riot
at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre--Death of Rich

CHAPTER XVI.

Joseph Grimaldi

CHAPTER XVII.

Plots of the old form of Pantomimes--A description of
"Harlequin and the Ogress; or the Sleeping
Beauty of the Wood," produced at Covent Garden--Grimaldi,
_Pere et Fils_--Tom Ellar, the Harlequin, and
Barnes, the Pantaloon--An account of the first production
of the "House that Jack built," at Covent Garden--Spectacular
display--Antiquity and Origin of some
Pantomimic devices--Devoto, Angelo, and French, the
Scenic Artists--Transparencies--Beverley--Transformation
Scenes

CHAPTER XVIII.

Pantomimic Families--Giuseppe Grimaldi--James Byrne,
the Harlequin and Inventor of the modern Harlequin's
dress--Joseph Grimaldi, Junior--The Bologna Family--Tom
Ellar--The Ridgways--The Bradburys--The
Montgomerys--The Paynes--The Marshalls--Charles
and Richard Stilt--Richard Flexmore--Tom Gray--The
Paulos--Dubois--Arthur and Charles Leclerq--"Jimmy"
Barnes--Famous Pantaloons--Miss Farren--Mrs.
Siddons--Columbines--Notable Actors in Pantomime

CHAPTER XIX.

Popular Pantomime subjects--Poor Pantomime Librettos--Pantomime
subjects of our progenitors--The various
versions of "Aladdin"--"The Babes in the Wood"--"Blue
Beard"--"Beauty and the Beast"--"Cinderell