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Performance and identity in the classical world / Anne Duncan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duncan, Anne, author.
- 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.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Theater--History--To 500.
- Performing arts--Rome.
- Self in literature.
- Actors--Greece.
- Actors.
- Theater--Rome.
- Actors--Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 242 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Performance & Identity in the Classical World
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Performance and Identity in the Classical World traces attitudes towards actors in Greek and Roman culture as a means of understanding ancient conceptions of, and anxieties about, the self. Actors were often viewed as frauds and impostors, capable of deliberately fabricating their identities. Conversely, they were sometimes viewed as possessed by the characters that they played, or as merely playing themselves onstage. Numerous sources reveal an uneasy fascination with actors and acting, from the writings of elite intellectuals (philosophers, orators, biographers, historians) to the abundant theatrical anecdotes that can be read as a body of 'popular performance theory'. This 2005 text examines these sources, along with dramatic texts and addresses the 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 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-139-81039-1
- 1-107-15448-0
- 1-107-31658-8
- 1-107-32197-2
- 1-107-31754-1
- 1-107-31843-2
- 1-299-39966-5
- 1-107-31560-3
- 0-511-55057-X
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