Effects

CHAPTER VI.

Roman Theatres--Description--"Deadheads"--Pantomime
in Italy--Livius Andronicus--_Fabulae Atellanae_--Extemporal
Comedy--Origin of the Masque, Opera, and
Vaudeville--Origin of the term Histrionic--Etruscans--Popularity
of Pantomime in Italy--Pantomimists banished
by Trajan--Nero as a Mime--Pylades and Bathyllus--Subjects
chosen for the Roman Pantomimes--The Ballet--The
_Mimi_ and _Pantomimi_--_Archimimus_--Vespasian--Harlequin--"Mr.
Punch"--Zany, how the word originated--Ancient
Masks--Lucian, Cassiodorus, and Demetrius
in praise of Pantomime--A celebrated _Mima_--Pantomimes
denounced by early writers--The purity of the
English stage contrasted with that of the Grecian and
Roman--Female parts on the Grecian and Roman stages--The
principal Roman _Mimas_--The origin of the Clown
of the early English Drama

CHAPTER VII.

Introduction of the Roman Pantomimic Art into Britain--First
English reference to the word Pantomime--The
fall of the Roman Empire--The sacred play--Cornish
Amphitheatres--Pantomimical and Lyrical elements in
the sacrifice of the Mass--Christian banishment of the
_Mimis_--Penalties imposed by the Church--St. Anthony
on Harlequin and Punch--Vandenhoff--what we owe to
the _Mimis_

CHAPTER VIII.

Pantomime in the English Mystery or Miracle Plays and
Pageants--A retrospect of the Early Drama--Mysteries
on Biblical events--Chester, Coventry, York, and Towneley
Mystery Plays--Plays in Churches--Traces of the
Mystery Play in England in the Nineteenth Century--Mystery
Plays on the Continent--The Chester series of
Plays--The Devil or Clown and the _Exodiarii_ and
_Emboliariae_ of the Ancient Mimes

CHAPTER IX.

The Clown or Fool of the early English Drama--Moralities--The
Interlude--The rise of English Tragedy and
Comedy--"Dumb Shews" in the Old Plays--Plays
suppressed by Elizabeth--A retrospect

CHAPTER X.

The Italian Masque--The Masque in England--First
appearance in this country of Harlequin--Joe Haines as
Harlequin--Marlowe's "Faustus"--A Curious Play--The
Italian Harlequin--Colley Cibber, Penkethman--Shakespeare's
Burlesques of the Masque--Decline of the Masque

CHAPTER XI.

Italian Pantomime--Riccoboni--Broom's "Antipodes"--Gherardi--Extemporal
Comedies--Salvator Rosa--Impromptu Acting

CHAPTER XII.

Pantomimical Characters--Neapolitan Pantomime--The
Harlequin Family--The Original Characters in the
Italian Pantomimes--Celebrated Harlequins--I