Performance and identity in the classical world/

Main Author: Duncan, Anne
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006
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Table of 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.