Performance and identity in the classical world

Performance and identity in the classical world / Anne Duncan.

Author/creator	Duncan, Anne
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Description	viii, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	Acting--History --To 1500. Performing arts--Greece --History --To 1500. Classican drama--History and criticism. Theater--Greece --History --To 500. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Theater--History --To 500. Performing arts--Italy --Rome. Self in literature. Actors--Greece. Theater--Italy --Rome. Actors--Italy --Rome.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-239) and index.
LCCN	2005011726
ISBN	052185282X (hardback)
ISBN	9780521852821

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PA3203 .D76 2006	✔ Available	Place Hold