The Dangerous Lives of Public Performers

1. Introduction
Anthony Shay

2. The Public Entertainer
Anthony Shay

3. The Contours of Masculinity and Public Entertainers in Ancient Greece
Anthony Shay

4. The Contours of Masculinity and the Public Entertainer in Rome, Hellenistic Greece, and Byzantium
Anthony Shay

5. Medieval Islam: The Caliphate in Damascus, Baghdad, Córdoba, Cairo, and Beyond
Anthony Shay

6. After the Caliphate: Early Modern Ottoman Turkey, Safavid Iran, Mughal India—The Heyday of Islamic Gunpowder Empires
Anthony Shay

7. The Long Nineteenth Century: The Qajars, the Ottomans, Egypt, and Colonialism
Anthony Shay

8. The Twentieth and the Twenty-First Centuries: Modernity and Nationalism
Anthony Shay

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre History, Performing Arts, Gender Studies, Dance, Arts