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Pantomime - or mimepănˈtəmīm [Gr.,=all in mimic], silent form of the drama in which the story is developed by movement, gesture, facial expression, and stage properties. It is known to have existed among the Chinese, Persians, Hebrews, and Egyptians and has been observed in many other cultures. Pantomime was popular in ancient Rome, where it was

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The Mime » Read Now
by Jean Dorey, Etienne Decroux, Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcel Marceau, Robert Speller Jr., Pierre de Fontnouvelle. 116 pgs.

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...THE MIME JEAN DORCY Photo: Etienne-Bertrand Weill THE MIME by Jean Dorey and Essays by Etienne Decroux...INC. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 60-9604 The Mime is set...
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Festive Revolutions: The Politics of Popular Theater and the San Francisco Mime Troupe » Read Now
by Claudia Orenstein. 192 pgs.

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The history & lineage of a Bay Area performance troupe that blends politics & festivity.
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Masks, Mimes and Miracles: Studies in the Popular Theatre » Read Now
by Allardyce Nicoll. 408 pgs.

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...MIMES AND MIRACLES -2- -3- A SCENE FROM A MIME IN THE SIXTH CENTURY Ivory diptych of...INTRODUCTORY 17 ii THE DORIAN MIME 20 iii EPICHARMUS AND THE GREEK MIME 38 iv THE...
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The Roman Stage: A Short History of Latin Drama in the Time of the Republic (1950) (Chap. XVIII "The Mime") » Read Now
by W. Beare. 292 pgs.

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...ATELLANA 135 XVIII. THE MIME 141 XIX. THE LATIN PROLOGUES...and the stage, almost monopolized by mime and pantomime. The contrast between the...solemn note in comedy and...
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The Choreographic Art: An Outline of Its Principles and Craft ("Mime and Acting" begins on p. 108) » Read Now
by Peggy van Praagh, Peter Brinson, Robert Bruce Church . 390 pgs.

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...Original Movement 196 v Mime and Acting 198 Part...art as the union of dance with music and mime, stage design and costumes to tell a story...restoration and development of...
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Reflections on the Theatre (Discussion of mime begins on p. 26 and "Concerning Mime and Dance" begins on p. 155) » Read Now
by Jean Louis Barrault. 191 pgs.

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...following day Decroux gave me my first lesson in mime. Decroux had picked up his first notions about...that time what my opinion was of the art of Mime, I think this is...
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On Stage: A History of Theatre (Chap. 4 "Imitations and Innovations of the Romans") » Read Now
by Vera Mowry Roberts. 536 pgs.

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...beast and between man and man variously armed, as well as the spectacular chariot races, vied with tragic spectacle, comedy, mime, and pantomime for the attention of the...
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Fools and Jesters in Literature, Art, and History: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook ("Jean-Louis Barrault" begins on p. 71) » Read Now
by Vicki K. Janik, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 552 pgs.

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Jesters and fools have existed as important and consistent figures in nearly all cultures. Sometimes referred to as clowns, they are typological characters who have conventional roles in the arts, often using nonsense to subvert existing order. But fools are also a part of social and religious...
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Jesters and fools have existed as important and consistent figures in nearly all cultures. Sometimes referred to as clowns, they are typological characters who have conventional roles in the arts, often using nonsense to subvert existing order. But fools are also a part of social and religious history, and they frequently play key roles in the rituals that support and shape a society's system of beliefs. This reference book includes alphabetically arranged entries for approximately 60 fools and jesters from a wide range of cultures. Included are entries for performers from American popular culture, such as Woody Allen, Charlie Chaplin, and the Marx Brothers; literary characters, such as Shakespeare's Falstaff, Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, and Singer's Gimpel; and cultural and mythological figures, such as Birbal, the American circus clown, the Native American Coyote, Taishu Engeki of Japan, Hephaestus, Loki the Norse fool, schlemiels and schlimazels, and the drag queen.
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A Meeting of like Minds: Marcel Marceau and Bill Irwin Bring the Grace of Dancers to the World of Mime, in Dance Magazine » Read Now
by Caitlin Sims. 3 pgs.

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...bring the grace of dancers to the world of mime. by Caitlin Sims One recent...Marceau of Irwin. "But he hasnt learned the mime of Marceau." "It was entirely...
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No More Clowning Around: For Vaudeville Clown and Mime Artist Bill Irwin, Writing Serious Plays Means Reaching into a New Bag of Tricks, in American Theatre » Read Now
by Stuart Miller. 8 pgs.

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...No more clowning around: for vaudeville clown and mime artist Bill Irwin, writing serious plays means reaching into...trampoline, Irwin took courses along the way in dance...
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Bring on the Clowns: Clover Hughes Celebrates the Return of a Neglected and Misunderstood Art Form, in New Statesman » Read Now
by Clover Hughes. 2 pgs.

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...Clover Hughes Mention the word "mime" and most people think of a white-faced...wall. Famous names within the world of mime are relatively hard to come by: everyone...of...