circusiana

Updated: May 26, 2025

These entertainments were very popular at the close of the eighteenth century, and they were also the means of providing some first-class Pantomimists as, for instance, Bologna and D'Egville. In a couple of volumes by Mr. J.C. Cross, entitled, "Circusiana," the author of many of these old "dumb shows," the reader can see what they were like.

R. J. Broadbent - A History of Pantomime