New directions in ancient pantomime
By: edited by Edith Hall and Rosie Wyles.
Contributors: Hall, Edith, 1959-; Wyles, Rosie.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9780199232536
Subjects: Pantomime -- Greece -- History -- To 500; Pantomime -- Rome -- History -- To 500; Theater -- Greece -- History -- To 500; Theater -- Rome -- History -- To 500
Description: "The study discusses all the key ancient sources for pantomime, and includes an appendix of selected source texts with translations keyed to the essays. It also prints a newly updated English translation of Jacob of Sarugh's Homilies on the Spectacles of the Theatre, one of the most important, though neglected, pieces of evidence for pantomime."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Inside the mask : pantomime from the performer's perspective / Ruth Webb; title: The symbolism of costume in ancient pantomime / Rosie Wyles; title: Pantomime performance and figured scenes on Roman sarcophagi / Janet Huskinson; title: Pantomime actresses in Latin inscriptions / John H. Starks, Jr; title: Mime and pantomime : some problematic texts / T. P. Wiseman; title: The pantomime dancer and his libretto / John Jory; title: Roman pantomime libretti and their Greek themes : the role of Augustus in the romanization of the Greek classics / Yvette Hunt; title: Virgil on the popular stage / Costas Panayotakis; title: Et mea sunt populo saltata poemata saepe (tristia 2.519) : Ovid and the pantomime / Jennifer Ingleheart; title: Seneca and pantomime (translated from the German by Edith Hall) / Bernhard Zimmermann; title: The influence of pantomime on Seneca's tragedies / Alessandra Zanobi; title: Is the Barcelona Alcestis a Latin pantomime libretto? / Edith Hall; title: Was pantomime good to think with in the ancient world? / Ismene Lada Richards; title: Lucians on dancing and the models for a discourse on pantomime / Karin Schlapbach; title: The metamorphosis of pantomime : Apuleiu's Judgement of Paris (met. 10.3034) / Regine May.