NEW DIRECTIONS IN ANCIENT PANTOMIME C

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-923253-6
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 754 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, Wyles

Hall, Edith

Wyles, Rosie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatertheorie, Ästhetik des Theaters, Theaterkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Pantomime: a lost chord of ancient culture

- I. The Pantomime Dancer and his World

- 1: Ruth Webb: Inside the mask: pantomime from the performers' perspective

- 2: Rosie Wyles: The symbolism of costume in ancient pantomime

- 3: Janet Huskinson: Pantomime performance and figured scenes on Roman sarcophagi

- 4: John H. Starks: Pantomime actresses in Latin inscriptions

- 5: T. P. Wiseman: 'Mime' and 'pantomime': some problematic texts

- II. Pantomime Libretti

- 6: John Jory: The pantomime dancer and his libretto

- 7: Yvette Hunt: Roman pantomime libretti and their Greek themes: the role of Augustus in the Romanization of the Greek classics

- 8: Costas Panayotakis: Virgil on the popular stage

- 9: Jennifer Ingleheart: 'et mea sunt populo saltata poemata saepe' (Tristia 2.519): Ovid and the pantomime

- 10: Bernhard Zimmermann: Seneca and pantomime

- 11: Alessandra Zanobi: The influence of pantomime on Seneca's tragedies

- 12: Edith Hall: Is the 'Barcelona Alcestis' a Latin pantomime libretto?

- III. The Idea of the Pantomime Dancer

- 13: Ismene Lada-Richards: Was pantomime 'good to think with' in the ancient world?

- 14: Karin Schlapbach: Lucian, rhetoric, and the protreptic genre

- 15: Regine May: The metamorphosis of pantomime: Apuleius' Judgement of Paris (Met. 10.30-34)

- 16: Edith Hall: Ancient pantomime and the rise of ballet

- Appendix: Jacob of Sarugh's Syriac Homilies on the theatre: an English translation

Über Autor(innen)

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.