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From the Greek mimes to Marcel Marceau and beyond : mimes, actors, Pierrots, and clowns : a chronicle of the many visages of mime in the theatre / Annette Bercut Lust ; foreword by Marcel Marceau.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lust, Annette.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mime--History.
- Mime.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 352 pages) : illustrations ; cm.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2000.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2000.
- Contents:
- Mime, first language and art: mime in Greece and Rome
- Mimes and jongleurs of the Middle Ages
- Origins of the commedia dell'arte and the Théâtres de la Foire
- Gaspard Deburau and the Pierrots of the nineteenth century
- English pantomime
- Mime and movement in German, Russian, and Italian theatre
- Exit Pierrot. Enter Georges Wague
- Etienne Decroux, father of corporeal mime
- Jean-Louis Barrault
- Marcel Marceau
- Jacques Lecoq
- Mimes of twentieth-century Europe
- Mime and movement theatre in North America
- Women's voices in mime
- Movement and silence in modern and postmodern verbal theatre
- Whither mime?
- Notes:
- Filmography: pages 297-308.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-336) and index.
- Print version record
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-41630-2
- OCLC:
- 1484269961
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