New Directions in Ancient Pantomime

A collection of specially commissioned studies in which 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, the forerunner of modern ballet.

remarkable

Autorentext
Edith Hall is Professor of Classics & Drama, Royal Holloway, University of London. Rosie Wyles is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama, University of Oxford.

Klappentext
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.

Inhalt
Introduction: Pantomime: a lost chord of ancient culture; I. THE PANTOMIME DANCER AND HIS WORLD; 1. Inside the mask: pantomime from the performers' perspective; 2. The symbolism of costume in ancient pantomime; 3. Pantomime performance and figured scenes on Roman sarcophagi; 4. Pantomime actresses in Latin inscriptions; 5. 'Mime' and 'pantomime': some problematic texts; II. PANTOMIME LIBRETTI; 6. The pantomime dancer and his libretto; 7. Roman pantomime libretti and their Greek themes: the role of Augustus in the Romanization of the Greek classics; 8. Virgil on the popular stage; 9. 'et mea sunt populo saltata poemata saepe' (Tristia 2.519): Ovid and the pantomime; 10. Seneca and pantomime; 11. The influence of pantomime on Seneca's tragedies; 12. Is the 'Barcelona Alcestis' a Latin pantomime libretto?; III. THE IDEA OF THE PANTOMIME DANCER; 13. Was pantomime 'good to think with' in the ancient world?; 14. Lucian, rhetoric, and the protreptic genre; 15. The metamorphosis of pantomime: Apuleius' Judgement of Paris (Met. 10.30-34); 16. Ancient pantomime and the rise of ballet; Appendix: Jacob of Sarugh's Syriac Homilies on the theatre: an English translation

#	Onlineshop	Preis CHF	Versand CHF	Total CHF
1	Seller	0.00	0.00	0.00