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Music and Letters 2002 83(2):237-259; doi:10.1093/ml/83.2.237
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The Music-Hall Cockney: Flesh and Blood, or Replicant?

Derek B. Scott

From the 1840s to the 1890s the representation of the Cockney in musical entertainments went through three successive phases. It began as a parody of working-class life; then it turned into a more complex stage type played by character actors. It ended, finally, with a confusion of the real and imaginary in which the performer was seen as a ‘real’ Cockney and no longer acting. Once this final phase had been reached, however, performers began to derive their stage representation no longer from the flesh-and-blood Cockney but, instead, by replicating already existing representations.


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