Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… as a social and a pleasurable practice stimulating conversation about broader cultural debates. Like the concert, the theatre, and museums, a menagerie fostered discussions about the colonial trade, the exotic, the domestication, the … abuse was committed against Chunee, a 7-ton elephant from Bengal purchased by Mr Harris, the manager of Covent Garden Theatre, to perform in a grand pantomime known as the Harlequin and Padmanaba, or the Golden Fish. If in 1813 Chunee … in 1829 marking the end of an era and thereby paving the way for nineteenth-century zoological gardens. Like concerts, theatres and museums, menageries institutionalised the exotic with discussions in newspapers, letters, diaries, trade …
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