Anne Duncan

Performance and Identity in the Classical World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text addresses the issue of impersonation, from the late fifth century BCE to the early Roman Empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780521313483
• ISBN-10: 0521313481
• Artikelnr.: 33611516

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the hypocritical self
1. Drag queens and in-betweens: Agathon and the mimetic body
2. Demosthenes vs Aeschines: the rhetoric of sincerity
3. The fraud and the flatterer: images of actors in the comic state
4. Infamous performers: comic actors and female prostitutes in Rome
5. The actor's freedom: Roscius and the slave actor at Rome
6. Extreme mimesis: the spectacle in the Empire.