Entertaining children: an exploration of the business and politics of childhood

Title: Entertaining children: an exploration of the business and politics of childhood
Creator: Arrighi, Gillian; Emeljanow, Victor
Relation: New Theatre Quarterly Vol. 28, Issue 1, p. 41-55
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X12000048
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2012
Description: This article explores the conflict between the constructions of childhood and their political/legal implications in the context of the entertainment business, as related to the demands imposed upon children by parents and theatre managers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Once children could move freely both within and between countries, these conflicts and concerns assumed a global dimension. Through a number of case studies, the authors offer some fresh observations about how legal and social imperatives affected the transmission of values about children employed as entertainers between Britain and Australasia during the period from 1870 to the start of the First World War – from the Education Acts of the 1870s to the legislation of 1910–1913 restricting the export of child entertainers.
Subject: child entertainers; child legislation; theatre in Australasia; politics of childhood
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/934331
Identifier: uon:11830
Identifier: ISSN:1474-0613
Language: eng
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