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Mark Cosdon, associate professor of theatre and performance studies at Allegheny College, is author of The Hanlon Brothers: From Daredevil Acrobatics to Spectacle Pantomime. His essays have been published in the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Theatre History Studies, and Asian Theatre Journal. Cosdon is the President of the American Theatre and Drama Society, an international organization with more than 200 members.
The Hanlons—a family of six brothers from Manchester, England—were one of the world’s premiere performing troupes in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet their legacy has been mostly forgotten. In The Hanlon Brothers: From Daredevil Acrobatics to Spectacle Pantomime, 1833–1931, Mark Cosdon carefully documents the careers of this talented family and enumerates their many contributions to modern popular entertainment.
As young men, the Hanlons stunned audiences all...