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