What's in a Genre? The audience experience(s) of palliata comedy and Roman mime

“What’s in a Genre? The audience experience(s) of palliata comedy and Roman mime.” Phoenix 79, no. 2 (Fall/Autumn 2025): 296–315.

“What’s in a Genre” reconstructs the experience of an audience attending a mime show. It supplements the limited evidence for early mime by comparing equivalent elements (e.g., masks, music, stage) in palliata comedy, and speculates on how loss or modification of the same would define the experience of mime, with the conclusion that comic digression largely defined early mime.