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Author:
Duncan, Anne
Title:
Performance and identity in the classical world / Anne Duncan.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
Copyright Date:
2006
Description:
viii, 242 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Acting--History--To 1500.
Performing arts--Greece--History--To 1500.
Classical 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 and index.
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.
ISBN:
9780521852821
052185282X (hardback)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)59818323
LCCN:
2005011726
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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