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Impersonation

Here are entered works on pretending to be a different person, gender, etc., and works on imitating characteristics, mannerisms, etc. Works on falsely assuming the identity of another person to gain benefit or cause harm to the other person are entered under False personation.

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• Acting
• Comedy
• Imitation

• Impersonation -- Drama
• Impersonation -- Fiction

• Impersonator

• The Inspector-General: A Comedy in Five Acts, by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', trans. by Thomas Seltzer (Gutenberg text)

• The Masquerader, by Katherine Cecil Thurston (Gutenberg text)
• The Golden Bird, by Maria Thompson Daviess, illust. by Edward L. Chase (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Time of Roses (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., n.d.), by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Drama, by Henry Irving (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Paradox of Acting: Translated With Annotations From Diderot's "Paradoxe sur le Comédien" (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), by Denis Diderot, ed. by Walter Herries Pollock, contrib. by Henry Irving (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Shakespearean Representation: Its Laws and Limits (London: E. Stock, 1908), by Percy Fitzgerald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Stage Confidences: Talks About Players and Play Acting (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1902), by Clara Morris (Gutenberg text)

• The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Selected illustrations (unique bound volume of 80 images from Diversarum Nationum Habitus and other Bertelli works, ca. 1590), by Pietro Bertelli
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Chirologia: or, The Naturall Language of the Hand Composed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures Thereofl Whereunto Is Added Chironomia, or, the Art of Manuall Rhetoricke, Consisting of the Naturall Expressions, Digested by Art In the Hand, as the Chiefest Instrument of Eloquence, By Historicall Manifesto's Exemplified Out of the Authentique Registers of Common Life and Civill Conversation; With Types, or Chyrograms, a Long-wish'd for Illustration of This Argument (London: Printed by T. Harper, 1644), by J. B.
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Randall K. Knoper (HTML at UC Press)

• Analog Game Studies (full serial archives)

• Nordic Larp (Stockholm: Fea Livia, c2010), ed. by Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola (PDF in Finland)

• Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Randall K. Knoper (HTML at UC Press)
• Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Joseph Litvak (HTML at UC Press)

• Integrating Gestures: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Gesture (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), ed. by Gale Stam and Mika Ishino (PDF with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)
• Die Gebärden der Griechen und Römer (in German; Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1890), by Karl Sittl
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Introduction to Kinesics (An Annotation System for Analysis of Body Motion and Gesture) (Washington: Dept. of State, Foreign Service Institute, 1952), by Ray L. Birdwhistell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gesture and Rank in Roman Art; The Use of Gestures to Denote Status in Roman Sculpture and Coinage (New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1963), by Richard Brilliant (page images at HathiTrust)

• Der Römische Mimus (in German; extracted from K. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna; 1854), by Karl Joseph Grysar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eloquent Gestures: The Transformation of Performance Style in the Griffith Biograph Films (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Roberta E. Pearson (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at UC Press)

• Eloquent Gestures: The Transformation of Performance Style in the Griffith Biograph Films (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Roberta E. Pearson (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at UC Press)

• Stage Costuming (New York: Macmillan, 1939), by Agnes Brooks Young (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit, by George Meredith (Gutenberg text)
• The Dramatic Values in Plautus (1918), by Wilton W. Blancké (Gutenberg text)
• Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, by Henri Bergson, trans. by Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell (Gutenberg text)
• Retractatio in the Ambrosian and Palatine Recensions of Plautus: A Study of the Persa, Poenulus, Pseudolus, Stichus and Trinummus (Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1911), by Cornelia Catlin Coulter (page images at HathiTrust)

• Modern American Grotesque: Literature and Photography (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by James Goodwin (PDF at Ohio State)

• Modern American Grotesque: Literature and Photography (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by James Goodwin (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Wits, or, Sport Upon Sport (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1932), ed. by John James Elson, contrib. by Robert Cox and Francis Kirkman (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit, by George Meredith (Gutenberg text)

• Tennyson's Major Poems: The Comic and Ironic Patterns (1975), by James R. Kincaid (HTML at Victorian Web)
• Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Laura Kendrick (HTML at UC Press)

• Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age (2008), ed. by Caroline Eisner and Martha Vicinus (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Virgil and the Tempest: The Politics of Imitation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Donna B. Hamilton (PDF at Ohio State)
• Pope's Horatian Poems (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1966), by Thomas E. Maresca (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)