Performance and identity in the classical world /

Performance and identity in the classical world / Anne Duncan.

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Main Author: Duncan, Anne
Format: Book
Language:English
Donor:Edmonds, Calvin C. ;
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Acting > History > To 1500.
Performing arts > Greece > History > To 1500.
Classical drama > History and criticism.
Theater > Greece > History > To 500.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Theater > History > To 500.
Performing arts > Rome.
Self in literature.
Actors > Greece.
Theater > Rome.
Actors > Rome.
Table of Contents:
  • Drag queens and in-betweens: Agathon and the mimetic body
  • Demosthenes vs. Aeschines : the rhetoric of sincerity
  • The fraud and the flatterer : images of actors on the comic stage
  • Infamous performers : comic actors and female prostitutes in Rome
  • The actor's freedom : Roscius and the slave actor at rome
  • Extreme mimesis : spectacle in the empire.

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