New Directions in Ancient Pantomime

by: Hall, E. Wyles, R.

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 New Directions in Ancient Pantomime
Edited by Edith Hall and Rosie Wyles
The first comprehensive study of ancient pantomime dancing in its social and literary context
Contributors include all the acknowledged world specialists in the subject
Includes new English translations of a crucial source, Jacob of Sarugh's Homilies on the Spectacles of the Theatre, and of a text which may well be the sole surviving example of a Latin pantomime libretto

Description
This is the first comprehensive and illustrated study of the most important form of theatre in the entire Roman Empire - pantomime, the ancient equivalent of ballet dancing. Performed for more than five centuries in hundreds of theatres from Portugal in the West to the Euphrates, from Gaul to North Africa, solo male dancing stars - the forerunners of Nijinsky, Nureyev, and Baryshnikov - stunned audiences with their erotic costumes, subtlety of gesture, and dazzling athleticism. In sixteen specially commissioned and complementary studies, the leading world specialists explore all aspects of the ancient pantomime dancer's performance skills, popularity, and social impact, while paying special attention to the texts that formed the basis of this distinctive art form.

Table of Contents
Introduction: Pantomime: a lost chord of ancient culture, Edith Hall
I. The Pantomime Dancer and his World
1:Inside the mask: pantomime from the performers' perspective, Ruth Webb
2:The symbolism of costume in ancient pantomime, Rosie Wyles
3:Pantomime performance and figured scenes on Roman sarcophagi, Janet Huskinson
4:Pantomime actresses in Latin inscriptions, John H. Starks
5:'Mime' and 'pantomime': some problematic texts, T. P. Wiseman
II. Pantomime Libretti
6:The pantomime dancer and his libretto, John Jory
7:Roman pantomime libretti and their Greek themes: the role of Augustus in the Romanization of the Greek classics, Yvette Hunt
8:Virgil on the popular stage, Costas Panayotakis
9:'et mea sunt populo saltata poemata saepe' (Tristia 2.519): Ovid and the pantomime, Jennifer Ingleheart
10:Seneca and pantomime, Bernhard Zimmermann
11:The influence of pantomime on Seneca's tragedies, Alessandra Zanobi
12:Is the 'Barcelona Alcestis' a Latin pantomime libretto?, Edith Hall
III. The Idea of the Pantomime Dancer
13:Was pantomime 'good to think with' in the ancient world?, Ismene Lada-Richards
14:Lucian, rhetoric, and the protreptic genre, Karin Schlapbach
15:The metamorphosis of pantomime: Apuleius' Judgement of Paris (Met. 10.30-34), Regine May
16:Ancient pantomime and the rise of ballet, Edith Hall
Appendix: Jacob of Sarugh's Syriac Homilies on the theatre: an English translation

New Directions in Ancient Pantomime

by: Hall, E. Wyles, R.

• ISBN-13: 9780199232536 / 978-0-19-923253-6
• ISBN-03: 0199232539 / 0-19-923253-9
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008

Price: 119,00 EURO

1 copy in stock