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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:32:57 +0000 From: Matthew Steggle <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list FICINO <[log in to unmask]> Subject: personation in English drama A Renaissance drama question: Can anyone think of examples of personation - representing real, living people on stage - in English drama pre-1660? I've already got as far as Jonson's caricatures of his enemies, other plays involved in the War of the Theatres, and Middleton's @Game at Chess@ 1623, but it's not easy to add to these. And if anyone has any parallel examples from the Continent I'd be very grateful. Alternatively, any suggestions for secondary sources as to why this sort of drama is regarded as so transgressive and is so extremely rare? All the best, Matt Steggle Trinity College Oxford [log in to unmask]