New directions in ancient pantomime
2008, First Edition. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #476769
Physical description; xvii, 481 pages ; 26 cm : illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-448) and index. Contents; Inside the mask : pantomime from the performer's perspective / Ruth Webb – The symbolism of costume in ancient pantomime / Rosie Wyles – Pantomime performance and figured scenes on Roman sarcophagi / Janet Huskinson – Pantomime actresses in Latin inscriptions / John H. Starks, Jr – Mime and pantomime : some problematic texts / T.P. Wiseman – The pantomime dancer and his libretto / John Jory – Roman pantomime libretti and their Greek themes : the role of Augustus in the romanization of the Greek classics / Yvette Hunt – Virgil on the popular stage / Costas Panayotakis – Et mea sunt populo saltata poemata saepe (tristia 2.519) : Ovid and the pantomime / Jennifer Ingleheart – Seneca and pantomime / Bernhard Zimmermann ; translated from the German by Edith Hall – The influence of pantomime on Seneca's tragedies / Alessandra Zanobi – Is the Barcelona Alcestis a Latin pantomime libretto? / Edith Hall – Was pantomime 'good to think with' in the ancient world? / Ismene Lada-Richards – Lucian's 'On dancing' and the models for a discourse on pantomime / Karin Schlapbach – The metamorphosis of pantomime : Apuleius' Judgement of Paris (Met. 10.30-34) / Regine May – Ancient pantomime and the rise of ballet / Edith Hall. Subjects; Pantomime – Greece – History – To 500. Pantomime – Rome – History – To 500. Theater – Greece – History – To 500. Theater – Rome – History – To 500. Classical drama.
Price: €195.00