Performance and identity in the classical world
By: Anne Duncan.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780521852821
Subjects: Actors -- Greece.; Acting -- History -- To 1500.; Performing arts -- Rome.; Theater -- Greece -- History -- To 500.; Theater -- History -- To 500.; Classical drama -- History and criticism.; Theater -- Rome.; Performing arts -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.; Actors -- Rome.; Self in literature.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Drag queens and in-betweens: Agathon and the mimetic body; value: Demosthenes vs. Aeschines : the rhetoric of sincerity; value: The fraud and the flatterer : images of actors on the comic stage; value: Infamous performers : comic actors and female prostitutes in Rome; value: The actor's freedom : Roscius and the slave actor at rome; value: Extreme mimesis : spectacle in the empire.