Pantomime vs Charades - What's the difference?
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* Tylor
(historical) The drama in ancient Greece and Rome featuring such performers; or (later) any of various kinds of performance modelled on such work.
(UK) A traditional theatrical entertainment, originally based on the commedia dell'arte, but later aimed mostly at children and involving physical comedy, topical jokes, and fairy-tale plots.
Gesturing without speaking; dumb-show, mime.
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* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 26:
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To gesture without speaking.
To entertain others by silent gestures or actions.
English plurals
(in the plural) A game in which participants act out a word or phrase without talking for others to guess.
* 1909 , Booth Tarkington, Beasley's Christmas Party
As nouns the difference between pantomime and charades
is that pantomime is a Classical comic actor, especially one who works mainly through gesture and mime while charades is plural of charadeCategory:English plurals.As a verb pantomime
is to gesture without speaking.pantomime
English
(wikipedia pantomime)Noun
(en noun)- [He] saw a pantomime perform so well that he could follow the performance from the action alone.
- A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.
- In pantomime , Chief Joyi would fling his spear and creep along the veld as he narrated the victories and defeats.
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