Title Performance and identity in the classical world / Anne Duncan.

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

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 242 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Acting -- History -- To 1500.
	Acting.
	History.
Chronological Term	To 1500
Subject	Performing arts -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
	Classical drama -- History and criticism.
	Performing arts.
	Greece.
	Theater -- Greece -- History -- To 500.
	Classical drama.
	Theater.
Chronological Term	To 500
Subject	Identity (Psychology) in literature.
	Identity (Psychology) in literature.
	Theater -- History -- To 500.
	Performing arts -- Rome.
	Self in literature.
	Self in literature.
	Actors -- Greece.
	Actors.
	Theater -- Rome.
	Actors -- Rome.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Duncan, Anne. Performance and identity in the classical world. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006 9780521852821 (DLC) 2005011726 (OCoLC)59818323
ISBN	9781107321977 (electronic book)
	1107321972 (electronic book)
	9780511550577 (e-book)
	051155057X (e-book)
	9780521852821
	052185282X

Title Performance and identity in the classical world / Anne Duncan.

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