Guise at Troynovant - Masks and Disguise, Roles, Acting, Reenactment

Guise at Troynovant:
Dissemblance on Masks and Disguise,
Roles and Avatars, Acting and Reenactment;
listed by Title

Note that works with actors or disguises or deception and the like are not listed here unless these are a major factor in the work; or the review involves general discussion about roles and role-playing in some historical or psychological sense. — For general mystery stories, see Detection.

The Stoics held that planet [Luna, the Moon] to be mixed of fire and air, and in their opinion, the variety of its composition, caused her spots. Anaxagoras thought all the stars to be of an earthly nature, mixed with some fire, and as for the Sunne, he affirmed it to be nothing else but a fiery stone; for which latter opinion, the Athenians sentenced him to death; those zealous Idolaters counting it a great blasphemy, to make their God a stone, whereas not withstanding, they were too senseless in their adoration of Idolls, as to make a stone their God.

John Wilkins
The Discovery of a World in the Moone
or, A Discourse Tending to Prove
that 'tis probable there may be another habitable World in that Planet (1638)


Agent of Vega	James H. Schmitz	RW Franson
Annotated Sherlock Holmes	A. Conan Doyle	RW Franson
Augustus Mandrell series (the Commissions)	Frank McAuliffe	RW Franson

Bone Is Pointed, The	Arthur W. Upfield	RW Franson

Call Him Dead (Three to Conquer)	Eric Frank Russell	RW Franson
Campaigning in the World of Atlas Shrugged		WH Stoddard

Demon Breed, The (The Tuvela)	James H. Schmitz	RW Franson
Disappearing Act	Margaret Ball	RW Franson
Do You Wanna Date My Avatar	Felicia Day / The Guild	RW Franson

Escapade	Walter Satterthwait	RW Franson

Fluttering Hearts	Parrott / Chase	RW Franson
Freddy and the Ignormus	Walter R. Brooks	RW Franson
Freddy the Cowboy	Walter R. Brooks	RW Franson

GURPS Fantasy	William H. Stoddard	RW Franson
GURPS Steampunk	William H. Stoddard	RW Franson

Harpo Speaks	Harpo Marx & Rowland Barber	RW Franson

Leo Strauss and Nietzsche	Laurence Lampert	RW Franson
Living in the Current Middle Ages Discover The Society for Creative Anachronism		S Farrell

Mark of Zorro, The	Johnston McCulley	WH Stoddard
Murder Is Announced, A	Agatha Christie	RW Franson

Participatory Fiction		WH Stoddard
Poirot Loses a Client (Dumb Witness)	Agatha Christie	RW Franson

Revolt	Christopher Anvil	RW Franson

Sixth Column	Robert A. Heinlein	R Grube
Stealing Elections How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy	John Fund	RW Franson

Three to Conquer (Call Him Dead)	Eric Frank Russell	RW Franson
Time for Delusion, The	Donald L. Franson	RW Franson

We Are Not Amused, Sir Guillaume	Scott Farrell	RW Franson
W.S.C. - A Cartoon Biography	Fred Urquhart	RW Franson

[The Roman camp, Britain.]

Posthumus:

So I'll fight
Against the part I come with; so I'll die
For thee, O Innogen, even for whom my life
Is every breath a death; and, thus unknown,
Myself I'll dedicate. Let me make men know
More valour in me than my habits show.

Gods, put the strength o'th' Leonati in me.

To shame the guise o'th' world, I will begin
The fashion — less without and more within.

William Shakespeare
Cymbeline, 5.1.24-33

Right-Click on the Masks title link to open "The Mythic Mask" article from Endicott Studio in a new window.

Detection at Troynovant
solving mysteries; detective agencies

Humor alloys to clarity,
we sketch ourselves:
scirtnecce rof rorrim a

Utopias at Troynovant
utopia in power, or dystopia

Philosophy at Troynovant
nature of existence; history of ideas

In what then does philosophic politics consist? In satisfying the city that the philosophers are not atheists, that they do not desecrate everything sacred to the city, that they reverence what the city reverences, that they are not subversives, in short, that they are not irresponsible adventurers but good citizens and even the best of citizens. This is the defense of philosophy which was required always and everywhere, whatever the regime might have been. ...

This defense of philosophy before the tribunal of the city was achieved by Plato with a resounding success. ... The effects have lasted down to the present throughout all ages except the darkest ones.

... the political action of the philosophers on behalf of philosophy has achieved full success. One sometimes wonders whether it has not been too successful.

Leo Strauss
"Restatement on Xenophon's Hiero"
On Tyranny
Revised and Expanded Edition
Including the Strauss-Kojeve Correspondence (1948; "Restatement" in 1954, 1963, 1991)
edited by Victor Gourevitch & Michael S. Roth



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