Performance and identity in the classical world
By: Anne Duncan.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780521852821
Subjects: Acting -- History -- To 1500; Performing arts -- Greece -- History -- To 1500; Classican 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Drag queens and in-betweens: Agathon and the mimetic body; title: Demosthenes vs. Aeschines : the rhetoric of sincerity; title: The fraud and the flatterer : images of actors on the comic stage; title: Infamous performers : comic actors and female prostitutes in Rome; title: The actor's freedom : Roscius and the slave actor at rome; title: Extreme mimesis : spectacle in the empire.