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List of illustrations | |
List of contributors | |
Preface | |
Acknowledgements | |
List of abbreviations | |
Maps | |
The Art of the Actor | |
The singing actors of antiquity | |
The musicians among the actors | |
The use of the body by actors in tragedy and satyr-play | |
Towards a reconstruction of performance style | |
Kallippides on the floor-sweepings: the limits of realism in classical acting and performance styles | |
Looking for the actor's art in Aristotle | |
Acting, action and words in New Comedy | |
'Acting down': the ideology of Hellenistic performance | |
The Professional World | |
Nothing to do with the technitai of Dionysus? | |
Actors and actor-managers at Rome in the time of Plautus and Terence | |
The masks on the propylon of the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias | |
Images of performance: new evidence from Ephesus | |
Female entertainers in late antiquity | |
Acting in the Byzantine theatre: evidence and problems | |
The Idea of the Actor | |
Actor as icon | |
Scholars versus actors: text and performance in the Greek tragic scholia | |
Orator and/et actor | |
Acting and self-actualisation in imperial Rome: some death scenes | |
The subjectivity of Greek performance | |
The ancient actor's presence since the Renaissance | |
Glossary | |
List of works cited | |
Index of major ancient passages cited | |
General index | |
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