Title Performance and identity in the classical world / Anne Duncan

Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 242 pages) 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 Summary This 2005 text addresses issue of impersonation, from the late fifth century BCE to the early Roman Empire Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record SUBJECT Ästhetik Zusammenstellung gnd 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 PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General. Acting Actors Classical drama Identity (Psychology) in literature Performing arts Self in literature Theater Theaterspiel Schauspieler Antike Theater Drama Toneel. Acteren. Identiteit. Klassieke oudheid. Greece Rome (Empire) Römisches Reich Griechenland Altertum Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781107321977 1107321972 9780511550577 051155057X 1139810391 9781139810395 1107154480 9781107154483 1107316588 9781107316584 1107317541 9781107317543 1107318432 9781107318434 1299399665 9781299399662 1107315603 9781107315600

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