The dangerous lives of public performers

"This study addresses the history of the public entertainer, dancers, singers, actors, and others from ancient Greece and Rome into the Islamic world from its inception to the present day. Reviled, despised, but deeply desired and alluring, the public entertainer came from abject backgrounds--slaves, orphans, minority groups--and served as models of how not to behave through their scandalous lives"--

שנה

2014

שפה

English

הוצאה

Palgrave Macmillan

מהדורות

1

עמודים

291

ISBN

9781137433602

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata