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Pantomime

Author : Karl Toepfer
Publisher : Vosuri Media
ISBN 13 : 1733249737
Total Pages : 1320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (332 download)

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Download or read book Pantomime written by Karl Toepfer and published by Vosuri Media. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers perhaps the most comprehensive history of pantomime ever written. No other book so thoroughly examines the varieties of pantomimic performance from the early Roman Empire, when the term “pantomime” came into use, until the present. After thoroughly examining the complexities and startlingly imaginative performance strategies of Roman pantomime, the author identifies the peculiar political circumstances that revived and shaped pantomime in France and Austria in the eighteenth century, leading to the Pierrot obsession in the nineteenth century. Modernist aesthetics awakened a huge, highly diverse fascination with pantomime. The book explores an extraordinary variety of modernist and postmodern approaches to pantomime in Germany, Austria, France, numerous countries of Eastern Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Chile, England, and The United States. Making use of many performance and historical documents never before included in pantomime histories, the book also discusses pantomime’s messy relation to dance, its peculiar uses of music, its “modernization” through silent film aesthetics, and the extent to which writers, performers, or directors are “authors” of pantomimes. Just as importantly, the book explains why, more than any other performance medium, pantomime allows the spectator to see the body as the agent of narrative action.

Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime

Author : Alessandra Zanobi
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472512634
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime written by Alessandra Zanobi and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pantomime was arguably the most popular dramatic genre during the Roman Empire, but has been relatively neglected by literary critics. Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime adds to our understanding of Seneca's tragic art by demonstrating that elements which have long puzzled scholars can be attributed to the influence of pantomime. The work argues that certain formal features which depart from the conventions of fifth-century Attic drama can be explained by the influence of, and interaction with, this more popular genre. The work includes a detailed and systematic analysis of the specific pantomime-inspired features of Seneca's tragedies: the loose dramatic structure, the presence of “running commentaries” (minute descriptions of characters undergoing emotional strains or performing specific actions), of monologues of self-analysis, and of narrative set-pieces. Relevant to the culture of Roman imperial culture more generally, Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime includes an outline of the general features of pantomime as a genre. The work shows that the influence of sub-literary-genres such as pantomime and mime, the sister art of pantomime, can be traced in several Roman writers whose literary production was antecedent or contemporary with Seneca's. Furthermore, the work sheds light on the interaction between sub-literary genres of a performative nature such as mime and pantomime and more literary ones, an aspect of Latin culture which previous scholarship has tended to overlook. Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime provides an original contribution to the understanding of the impact of pantomime on Roman literary culture and of controversial and little-understood features of Senecan tragedies.

New Directions in Ancient Pantomime

Author : Edith Hall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191552577
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Ancient Pantomime written by Edith Hall and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Music, Pantomime and Freedom in Enlightenment France

Author : Hedy Law
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 178327560X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Music, Pantomime and Freedom in Enlightenment France written by Hedy Law and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did composers and performers use the lost art of pantomime to explore and promote the Enlightenment ideals of free expression?

Satire and Romanticism

Author : S. Jones
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0312299869
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Satire and Romanticism written by S. Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-04-21 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable study of the constructive and ultimately canon-forming relationship between satiric and Romantic modes of writing from 1760 to 1832 provides us with a new understanding of the historical development of Romanticism as a literary movement. Romantic poetry is conventionally seen as inward-turning, sentimental, sublime, and transcendent, whereas satire, with its public, profane, and topical rhetoric, is commonly cast in the role of generic other as the un-Romantic mode. This book argues instead that the two modes mutually defined each other and were subtly interwoven during the Romantic period. By rearranging reputations, changing aesthetic assumptions, and re-distributing cultural capital, the interaction of satiric and Romantic modes helped make possible the Victorian and modern construction of 'English Romanticism'.

Dickens and the Imagined Child

Author : Peter Merchant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317151216
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Dickens and the Imagined Child written by Peter Merchant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for readers and critics of Dickens. In Dickens and the Imagined Child, leading scholars explore the function of the child and childhood within Dickens’s imagination and reflect on the cultural resonance of his engagement with this topic. Part I of the collection examines the Dickensian child as both characteristic type and particular example, proposing a typology of the Dickensian child that is followed by discussions of specific children in Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, and Bleak House. Part II focuses on the relationship between childhood and memory, by examining the various ways in which the child’s-eye view was reabsorbed into Dickens’s mature sensibility. The essays in Part III focus upon reading and writing as particularly significant aspects of childhood experience; from Dickens’s childhood reading of tales of adventure, they move to discussion of the child readers in his novels and finally to a consideration of his own early writings alongside those that his children contributed to the Gad’s Hill Gazette. The collection therefore builds a picture of the remembered experiences of childhood being realised anew, both by Dickens and through his inspiring example, in the imaginative creations that they came to inform. While the protagonist of David Copperfield-that 'favourite child' among Dickens’s novels-comes to think of his childhood self as something which he 'left behind upon the road of life', for Dickens himself, leafing continually through his own back pages, there can be no putting away of childish things.

A System of legal medicine v. 2

Author : Allan McLane Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A System of legal medicine v. 2 written by Allan McLane Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A System of Legal Medicine

Author : Allan McLane Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A System of Legal Medicine written by Allan McLane Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America

Author : Ann R. Hawkins
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438485565
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America by : Ann R. Hawkins

Download or read book Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America written by Ann R. Hawkins and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital part of daily life in the nineteenth century, games and play were so familiar and so ubiquitous that their presence over time became almost invisible. Technological advances during the century allowed for easier manufacturing and distribution of board games and books about games, and the changing economic conditions created a larger market for them as well as more time in which to play them. These changing conditions not only made games more profitable, but they also increased the influence of games on many facets of culture. Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America focuses on the material and visual culture of both American and British games, examining how cultures of play intersect with evolving gender norms, economic structures, scientific discourses, social movements, and nationalist sentiments.

Pantomimes 101

Author : James W. Gousseff
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871291905
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book Pantomimes 101 written by James W. Gousseff and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1974-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the National Association of Elocutionists

Author : National Association of Elocutionists (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the National Association of Elocutionists written by National Association of Elocutionists (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle

Author : Marian Smith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400832470
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle written by Marian Smith and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marian Smith recaptures a rich period in French musical theater when ballet and opera were intimately connected. Focusing on the age of Giselle at the Paris Opéra (from the 1830s through the 1840s), Smith offers an unprecedented look at the structural and thematic relationship between the two genres. She argues that a deeper understanding of both ballet and opera--and of nineteenth-century theater-going culture in general--may be gained by examining them within the same framework instead of following the usual practice of telling their histories separately. This handsomely illustrated book ultimately provides a new portrait of the Opéra during a period long celebrated for its box-office successes in both genres. Smith begins by showing how gestures were encoded in the musical language that composers used in ballet and in opera. She moves on to a wide range of topics, including the relationship between the gestures of the singers and the movements of the dancers, and the distinction between dance that represents dancing (entertainment staged within the story of the opera) and dance that represents action. Smith maintains that ballet-pantomime and opera continued to rely on each other well into the nineteenth century, even as they thrived independently. The "divorce" between the two arts occurred little by little, and may be traced through unlikely sources: controversies in the press about the changing nature of ballet-pantomime music, shifting ideas about originality, complaints about the ridiculousness of pantomime, and a little-known rehearsal score for Giselle. ?

Living Theatre in the Ancient Roman House

Author : Richard C. Beacham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009041274
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Living Theatre in the Ancient Roman House written by Richard C. Beacham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Romans, much of life was seen, expressed and experienced as a form of theatre. In their homes, patrons performed the lead, with a supporting cast of residents and visitors. This sumptuously illustrated book, the result of extensive interdisciplinary research, is the first to investigate, describe and show how ancient Roman houses and villas, in their décor, spaces, activities and function, could constitute highly-theatricalised environments, indeed, a sort of 'living theatre'. Their layout, purpose and use reflected and informed a culture in which theatre was both a major medium of entertainment and communication and an art form drawing upon myths exploring the core values and beliefs of society. For elite Romans, their homes, as veritable stage-sets, served as visible and tangible expressions of their owners' prestige, importance and achievements. The Roman home was a carefully crafted realm in which patrons displayed themselves, while 'stage-managing' the behaviour and responses of visitor-spectators.

Philadelphia Hospital Reports

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philadelphia Hospital Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

No Kidding!

Author : Donald McManus
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874138085
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book No Kidding! written by Donald McManus and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the way the clown has been used as a serious character by important playwrights and directors in twentieth-century theater. Experiments with Clown by Jean Cocteau, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Giorgio Strehler, Dario Fo, and Roberto Begnini are examined.

Macready's Reminiscences and Selections from His Diaries and Letters

Author : William Charles Macready
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Macready's Reminiscences and Selections from His Diaries and Letters written by William Charles Macready and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: