Demons and dancers performance in late antiquity

• Main Author: Webb, Ruth 1963- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press c2008
• Subjects: Πρόσληψη > Αρχαίο Θέατρο; Θέατρο > Ιστορία > Μέχρι το 500 π.Χ. > Ελλάδα; Θέατρο > Θρησκευτικές απόψεις > Χριστιανισμός > Ιστορία των δογμάτων

Table of Contents:

• heater and society
• Performers
• Pantomime : the dancing body
• The pantomime as drama : dancers, audiences, and the communicative body
• Mime : the drama of everyday life
• Mime, humor, and society
• Images of actors : identification and estrangement
• Ideas of the audience : possession and the eye
• Christians and the theater.