Dame
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Dame, female character in the English
pantomime, traditionally played by an actor, sometimes one recruited from the
music-halls such as Dan
Leno or George
Robey. Among the familia: Dame parts are Aladdin's mother Widow Twankey (a name taken by H. J.
Byron from a Chinese tea-exporting port), Idle Jack's mother in
Jack and the Beanstalk, usually known as Dame Durden or Dame Trot, and Cinderella's ugly sisters. If the ugly sisters are played by women, their mother the Baroness is played by a man. Other Dame parts are the Cook in
Dick Whittington, the Queen of Hearts, Mother Goose, and Mrs Robinson Crusoe.
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