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.

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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

Autorenporträt

Anne Duncan is assistant professor of Classics in the Department of Languages and Literatures at Arizona State University. She has published articles on Greek and Roman comedy, Greek tragedy, and English Renaissance drama.

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.