New directions in ancient pantomime edited by Edith Hall and Rosie Wyles

Includes bibliographical references (p. 420-448) and index.

Inside the mask : pantomime from the performer's perspective / Ruth Webb The symbolism of costume in ancient pantomime / Rosie Wyles Pantomime performance and figured scenes on Roman sarcophagi / Janet Huskinson Pantomime actresses in Latin inscriptions / John H. Starks, Jr Mime and pantomime : some problematic texts / T. P. Wiseman The pantomime dancer and his libretto / John Jory Roman pantomime libretti and their Greek themes : the role of Augustus in the romanization of the Greek classics / Yvette Hunt Virgil on the popular stage / Costas Panayotakis Et mea sunt populo saltata poemata saepe (tristia 2.519) : Ovid and the pantomime / Jennifer Ingleheart Seneca and pantomime (translated from the German by Edith Hall) / Bernhard Zimmermann The influence of pantomime on Seneca's tragedies / Alessandra Zanobi Is the Barcelona Alcestis a Latin pantomime libretto? / Edith Hall Was pantomime 'good to think with' in the ancient world? / Ismene Lada Richards Lucian's 'On dancing' and the models for a discourse on pantomime / Karin Schlapbach The metamorphosis of pantomime : Apuleius' Judgement of Paris (Met. 10.3034) / Regine May Ancient pantomime and the rise of ballet / Edith Hall