Performance and identity in the classical world /

Duncan, Anne

Performance and identity in the classical world / Anne Duncan. - Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. - viii, 242 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Acting--History--To 1500
Performing arts--History--Greece--To 1500
Classican drama--History and criticism
Theater--History--Greece--To 500
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Theater--History--To 500
Performing arts--Rome
Self in literature
Actors--Greece
Theater--Rome
Actors--Rome

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