Demons and dancers
Subtitle: performance in late antiquity
By: Ruth Webb.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780674031920
Subjects: Classical drama -- History and criticism; Theater -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theater and society; title: Performers; title: Pantomime : the dancing body; title: The pantomime as drama : dancers, audiences, and the communicative body; title: Mime : the drama of everyday life; title: Mime, humor, and society; title: Images of actors : identification and estrangement; title: Ideas of the audience : possession and the eye; title: Christians and the theater.