New Directions in Ancient Pantomime

Edith Hall: 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