This book, a companion to the author's Pierrot: A Critical History of a Mask (Princeton, 1978), provides a detailed history of nineteenth-century French pantomime, from the feeries of Jean-Gaspard Deburau at the Theatre des Funambules to the cabaret entertainments of Georges Wague at the height of la Belle Epoque.
Originally published in 1985.
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*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Illustrations, pg. ix*Preface, pg.
xiii*Abbreviations, pg. xxi*I. Deburau, pg. 1*II. Paul Legrand, Champfleury,
and Pantomime after Deburau, pg. 36*III. In Pursuit of Colombine: Charles
Nodier and Charles Baudelaire, pg. 74*IV. Pierrot posthume: Theophile
Gautier, pg. 105*V. Pierrot narcissique: Theodore de Banville, pg. 127*VI.
Pierrot emmerdant: Gustave Flaubert, pg. 152*VII. Pierrot glace: Edmond de
Goncourt, pg. 180*VIII. Pierrot oedipien: J.-KAPPA. Huysmans, pg. 208*IX.
Pierrot pubere: Paul Verlaine, pg. 230*X. Pierrot Vanishes: Paul Margueritte
and Stephane Mallarme, pg. 253*XI. Epilogue: Eclipse, pg. 283*Handlist of
Pantomime Scenarios, pg. 317*Index, pg. 335
