附註:103年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計畫規劃主題 : 藝術學 : 全球化與劇場跨界.
106年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書計畫:藝術學:亞太音樂文化
Includes bibliographical references and index.
摘要:"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"--
