Ismene Lada‐Richards
Biographic Data
| ID | 5627673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ismene Lada‐Richards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ismene |
| FAMILY NAME | Lada‐Richards |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDS I L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Received into Dance? Parthenius’ Erōtika Pathēmata in the Pantomime Idiom
This chapter focuses on the Sufferings in Love , the mythological collection of racy stories by Parthenius of Nicaea. It proposes that Parthenius’ ‘little notebook’ was eminently ‘good to think with’ in the context of the various dance idioms evolving in first century BC Rome, particularly in the period of vigorous miscegenation and experimentation leading up to the flamboyant, official entrance of pantomime dancing into Roman public life. Althou…
Behind the Mask: Character and Society in Menander
This new study of Menander casts fresh light not only on the techniques of the playwright but also on the literary and historical contexts of the plays. Menander (342/1-292/1 BCE) wrote over a hundred popular comedies, several of which were adapted by Plautus and Terence. Through them, he was a major influence on Shakespeare and Molière. However, his work survived only in excerpts and quotation until some significant texts reappeared in the ninet…
"Closing Up" on Animal Metamorphosis: Ovid's Micro-Choreographies in the Metamorphoses and the Corporeal Idioms of Pantomime Dancing
This article reads Ovid's Metamorphoses through the lens of its contemporary art of pantomime dancing. With a focus restricted to narratives of animalization, it argues that the dancer's exquisite bodily expressiveness has been co-opted and re-calibrated for the demands of the poetic medium, as Ovid's sequences of animal metamorphosis have amalgamated aesthetic strategies borrowed from the pantomime stage. Far from having been shaped exclusively …
By Means of Performance: Western Greek Mythological Vase-Paintings, Tragic "Enrichment," and the Early Reception of Fifth-century Athenian Tragedy
ISMENE LADA-RICHARDS, "By Means of Performance": Western Greek Mythological Vase-Paintings, Tragic "Enrichment," and the Early Reception of Fifth-century Athenian Tragedy, Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Third Series, Vol. 17, No. 2 (FALL 2009), pp. 99-166
Was Pantomime ‘good to think with’ in the Ancient World
Becoming Mad on Stage: Lucian on the Perils of Acting and Spectating
Journal Article BECOMING MAD ON STAGE: LUCIAN ON THE PERILS OF ACTING AND SPECTATING Get access ISMENE LADA-RICHARDS ISMENE LADA-RICHARDS King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, December 2006, Pages 145–164, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2006.tb00682.x Published: 12 March 2010
In the Mirror of the Dance: A Lucianic Metaphor in Its Performative and Ethical Contexts
An intriguing paragraph in Lucian's De Saltatione (Salt. 81) draws upon a hodge-podge of ethical, philosophical and performative traditions in its attempt to argue that the spectating experience of pantomime dancing equips the viewer with a marvellous instrument of self-exploration and self-revelation: seeing himself in the 'mirror' of the dancer, the bearer of the gaze illuminates himself. A symbol of extraordinary range and complexity, the mirr…
Initiating Dionysus: Ritual and Theatre in Aristophanes’ Frogs
This book offers a challenging multi-disciplinary interpretation of Aristophanes' Frogs. Drawing on a wide range of literary and anthropological approaches, it deploys an impressive series of religious and cultural considerations which have never previously been used to illuminate this text. Rather than seeking to recover the 'authorial' meaning of the Frogs, Dr Lada-Richards attempts to reconstruct the wider spectrum of potential meanings that v…
Staging the Ephebeia: Theatrical Role-Playing and Ritual Transition in Sophocles' Philoctetes
The last two decades have seen a renewed emphasis on studies falling within the general area of Ritual and Drama. The majority of extant plays have been scrutinised in the search for ritual schemes and sequences, metaphors and allusions remoulded in their imagery and language, and some of the juiciest discussions of Greek theatre have emerged as a result. Nevertheless, compared to this proliferation of studies on particular aspects of ritual symb…
Staging the Ephebeia: Theatrical Role-Playing and Ritual Transition in Sophocles' Philoctetes
The last two decades have seen a renewed emphasis on studies falling within the general area of Ritual and Drama. The majority of extant plays have been scrutinised in the search for ritual schemes and sequences, metaphors and allusions remoulded in their imagery and language, and some of the juiciest discussions of Greek theatre have emerged as a result. Nevertheless, compared to this proliferation of studies on particular aspects of ritual symb…
"Closing Up" on Animal Metamorphosis: Ovid's Micro-Choreographies in the Metamorphoses and the Corporeal Idioms of Pantomime Dancing
This article reads Ovid's Metamorphoses through the lens of its contemporary art of pantomime dancing. With a focus restricted to narratives of animalization, it argues that the dancer's exquisite bodily expressiveness has been co-opted and re-calibrated for the demands of the poetic medium, as Ovid's sequences of animal metamorphosis have amalgamated aesthetic strategies borrowed from the pantomime stage. Far from having been shaped exclusively …
Initiating Dionysus: Ritual and Theatre in Aristophanes’ Frogs
This book offers a challenging multi-disciplinary interpretation of Aristophanes' Frogs. Drawing on a wide range of literary and anthropological approaches, it deploys an impressive series of religious and cultural considerations which have never previously been used to illuminate this text. Rather than seeking to recover the 'authorial' meaning of the Frogs, Dr Lada-Richards attempts to reconstruct the wider spectrum of potential meanings that v…
Was Pantomime ‘good to think with’ in the Ancient World
Initiating Dionysus: Ritual and Theatre in Aristophanes’ Frogs
This book offers a challenging multi-disciplinary interpretation of Aristophanes' Frogs. Drawing on a wide range of literary and anthropological approaches, it deploys an impressive series of religious and cultural considerations which have never previously been used to illuminate this text. Rather than seeking to recover the 'authorial' meaning of the Frogs, Dr Lada-Richards attempts to reconstruct the wider spectrum of potential meanings that v…
Staging the Ephebeia: Theatrical Role-Playing and Ritual Transition in Sophocles' Philoctetes
The last two decades have seen a renewed emphasis on studies falling within the general area of Ritual and Drama. The majority of extant plays have been scrutinised in the search for ritual schemes and sequences, metaphors and allusions remoulded in their imagery and language, and some of the juiciest discussions of Greek theatre have emerged as a result. Nevertheless, compared to this proliferation of studies on particular aspects of ritual symb…
In the Mirror of the Dance: A Lucianic Metaphor in Its Performative and Ethical Contexts
An intriguing paragraph in Lucian's De Saltatione (Salt. 81) draws upon a hodge-podge of ethical, philosophical and performative traditions in its attempt to argue that the spectating experience of pantomime dancing equips the viewer with a marvellous instrument of self-exploration and self-revelation: seeing himself in the 'mirror' of the dancer, the bearer of the gaze illuminates himself. A symbol of extraordinary range and complexity, the mirr…
Becoming Mad on Stage: Lucian on the Perils of Acting and Spectating
Journal Article BECOMING MAD ON STAGE: LUCIAN ON THE PERILS OF ACTING AND SPECTATING Get access ISMENE LADA-RICHARDS ISMENE LADA-RICHARDS King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, December 2006, Pages 145–164, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2006.tb00682.x Published: 12 March 2010
Was Pantomime ‘good to think with’ in the Ancient World
By Means of Performance: Western Greek Mythological Vase-Paintings, Tragic "Enrichment," and the Early Reception of Fifth-century Athenian Tragedy
ISMENE LADA-RICHARDS, "By Means of Performance": Western Greek Mythological Vase-Paintings, Tragic "Enrichment," and the Early Reception of Fifth-century Athenian Tragedy, Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Third Series, Vol. 17, No. 2 (FALL 2009), pp. 99-166
"Closing Up" on Animal Metamorphosis: Ovid's Micro-Choreographies in the Metamorphoses and the Corporeal Idioms of Pantomime Dancing
This article reads Ovid's Metamorphoses through the lens of its contemporary art of pantomime dancing. With a focus restricted to narratives of animalization, it argues that the dancer's exquisite bodily expressiveness has been co-opted and re-calibrated for the demands of the poetic medium, as Ovid's sequences of animal metamorphosis have amalgamated aesthetic strategies borrowed from the pantomime stage. Far from having been shaped exclusively …
Behind the Mask: Character and Society in Menander
This new study of Menander casts fresh light not only on the techniques of the playwright but also on the literary and historical contexts of the plays. Menander (342/1-292/1 BCE) wrote over a hundred popular comedies, several of which were adapted by Plautus and Terence. Through them, he was a major influence on Shakespeare and Molière. However, his work survived only in excerpts and quotation until some significant texts reappeared in the ninet…
Received into Dance? Parthenius’ Erōtika Pathēmata in the Pantomime Idiom
This chapter focuses on the Sufferings in Love , the mythological collection of racy stories by Parthenius of Nicaea. It proposes that Parthenius’ ‘little notebook’ was eminently ‘good to think with’ in the context of the various dance idioms evolving in first century BC Rome, particularly in the period of vigorous miscegenation and experimentation leading up to the flamboyant, official entrance of pantomime dancing into Roman public life. Althou…
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