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Performance and identity in the classical world / Anne Duncan.

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Van Pelt Library PA3203 .D76 2006
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Format:
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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