Performance and identity in the classical world /
Anne Duncan.
- 1st ed :
- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- viii, 242 p. ; HBK
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.
9780521852821 (hardback) 052185282X (hardback)
Acting--History Performing arts--History Classican drama--History and criticism. Theater--History Identity (Psychology) in literature. Theater--History Performing arts Self in literature. Actors Theater Actors