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New Directions in Ancient Pantomime

Cover of 'New Directions in Ancient Pantomime', with the title in purple font against a pale background, written below a profile of a pantomime actor's face..
Edith Hall and Rosie Wyles
2008
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    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. 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. 

    Publisher
    Oxford University Press
    1. Edith Hall, ‘Introduction: Pantomime: a lost chord of ancient culture’ 
    1. Ruth Webb, ‘Inside the mask: pantomime from the performers' perspective’ 
    1. Rosie Wyles, ‘The symbolism of costume in ancient pantomime’ 
    1. Janet Huskinson, ‘Pantomime performance and figured scenes on Roman sarcophagi’ 
    1. John H. Starks, ‘Pantomime actresses in Latin inscriptions’ 
    1. T. P. Wiseman, '"Mime" and "pantomime": some problematic texts’ 
    1. John Jory, ‘The pantomime dancer and his libretto’ 
    1. Yvette Hunt, ‘Roman pantomime libretti and their Greek themes: the role of Augustus in the Romanization of the Greek classics’ 
    1. Costas Panayotakis, ‘Virgil on the popular stage’ 
    1. Jennifer Ingleheart, '“et mea sunt populo saltata poemata saepe" (Tristia 2.519): Ovid and the pantomime’ 
    1. Bernhard Zimmermann, ‘Seneca and pantomime’ 
    1. Alessandra Zanobi, ‘The influence of pantomime on Seneca's tragedies’ 
    1. Edith Hall, ‘Is the 'Barcelona Alcestis' a Latin pantomime libretto?’ 
    1. Ismene Lada-Richards, ‘Was pantomime "good to think with" in the ancient world?’ 
    1. Karin Schlapbach, ‘Lucian, rhetoric, and the protreptic genre’ 
    1. Regine May, ‘The metamorphosis of pantomime: Apuleius' Judgement of Paris (Met. 10.30-34)’ 
    1. Edith Hall, ‘Ancient pantomime and the rise of ballet’