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Performance and identity in the classical world / Anne Duncan.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duncan, Anne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Acting--History--To 1500.
- Acting.
- Performing arts--Greece--History--To 1500.
- Performing arts.
- Classical drama--History and criticism.
- Classical drama.
- Theater--Greece--History--To 500.
- Theater.
- Actors.
- History.
- Greece.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Theater--History--To 500.
- Performing arts--Rome.
- Self in literature.
- Actors--Greece.
- Theater--Rome.
- Actors--Rome.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 242 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- Addresses issue of impersonation, from the late fifth century BCE to the early Roman Empire.
- Contents:
- Drag queens and in-betweens: Agathon and the mimetic body
- Demosthenes versus 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 052185282X
- OCLC:
- 59818323
- Publisher Number:
- 9780521852821
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