Historical actors were aware of theatrical representation’s layered meanings

Evidence

What does it mean, to stand in for someone else? To embody the collective will? What happens when you step onto the stage of history? When your clothes become costumes, and your face a mask? — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 850

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in character portrayal and the metaphor of persona as costume/mask. — connects to: In Egyptian drama accents mapped each class’s social position — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 359; Law’s meaning requires participant-spectators whose presence makes its motion meaningful. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 485
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 850