New directions in ancient pantomime Hall, Edith 1959- Wyles, Rosie. text bibliography Electronic books. History enk Oxford New York Oxford Univ. Press ©2008 2008 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xvii, 481 pages) : illustrations This book studies 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, Gaul to North Africa, solo male dancing stars—the ancient forerunners of Nijinsky, Nureyev and Baryshnikov—stunned their intercultural and cross‐class audiences with their erotic costumes, gestural delicacy, and dazzling athleticism. In sixteen specially commissioned and complementary studies, the leading world specialists explore the 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. The book argues that the core elements that underlay pantomime performances were the presence of a solo male dancer, masked, who used his body rather than speech in an evocation of a mythical story, accompanied by music; however, the venues in which pantomime performances took place, their scale, tone, and selection of additional personnel, could vary enormously. The book pays particular attention to the texts or ‘libretti' of pantomime, which were sung by accompanying choirs, to the impact of pantomime on ancient aesthetics and rhetoric, and the importance of the medium at the time when modern ballet was invented in the Early Modern period. An appendix of key sources in translation, from Xenophon to Macrobius, assists the reader to identify the most important evidential documents, and includes a translation of A Syriac text on pantomime by Jacob of Sarugh. 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. 10.3034) / Regine May -- Ancient pantomime and the rise of ballet / Edith Hall. edited by Edith Hall and Rosie Wyles. Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-448) and index. English. e-gr--- e------ Pantomime Greece History To 500 Pantomime Rome History To 500 Theater Greece History To 500 Theater Rome History To 500 Théâtre Grèce Histoire Jusqu'à 500 Théâtre Rome Histoire Jusqu'à 500 PERFORMING ARTS Theater Miming Pantomime Theater Greece Rome (Empire) To 500 fast PA3203 .N49 2008eb 792.30938 New directions in ancient pantomime Oxford ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008024310 (OCoLC)229023741 9780191552571 0191552577 9786612076169 661207616X 9780191716003 0191716006 9780199232536 0199232539 1282076167 9781282076167 2008024310 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/27410 N$T 090520 20260318174428.7 in00005703792 eng