| Actors in the Audience: Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian Reprint 2013 Edition Contributor(s): Bartsch, Shadi (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674280989 ISBN-13: 9780674280984 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $61.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Latin - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - History | Ancient - Rome |
| Dewey: 875.010 |
| Series: Revealing Antiquity |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.38 lbs) 315 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is a book about language, theatricality, and empire--about how the Roman emperor dramatized his rule and how his subordinates in turn staged their response. Informed by theories of dramaturgy, sociology, new historicism, and cultural criticism, this close reading of literary and historical texts gives us a new perspective on the politics of the Roman empire--and on the languages and representation of power. |