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_