A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Impersonation
Damrosch, Leopold, Jr. "Defoe as Ambiguous Impersonator." Modern Philology 71 (1973): 153-9.
Davis, Lloyd. "Rhetoric and Comic Impersonation in Shakespeare's Comedies." In A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume III: The Comedies. Malden: Blackwell, 2003. Pbk. 2006. 200-23.*
Doniger, Wendy. "Self-Impersonation in World Literature." Kenyon Review 26.2 (Spring 2004): 101-25.*
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4338587
2016
Espada, Arcadi. "De la ficción con personas reales." El Mundo (Cartas a K.) 24 Jan. 2016.*
http://www.elmundo.es/opinion/2016/01/24/56a3c771268e3eb64d8b4597.html
2016
Gabriel, Narciso de, Francisco Vázquez García and Renée de Palma. "Defining Desire: (Re)Storying a Fraudulent Marriage in 1901 Spain." Sexualities 23.3 (2020): 287-306.* (Sage).
DOI: 10.1177/1363460718817159
Online at Academia (Francisco Vázquez García).*
https://www.academia.edu/37963823/
2020
García Landa, José Ángel. "Yo, mi otro yo, y el de más allá." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 3 Sept. 2005. (Blogs, impersonation).
http://garciala.blogia.com/2005/090302-yo-mi-otro-yo-y-el-de-mas-alla.php
_____. "Suplantaciones." In García Landa, Aggelos: Mi enviado—Blog de notas de José Ángel García Landa (septiembre-diciembre de 2005) 18 Sept. 2005.*
http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/z05-3.html
2012 DISCONTINUED 2018 Online at the Internet Archive.*
2020
https://www.flickr.com/photos/garciala/39910765843/in/dateposted-public/
2020
_____. "Suplantaciones." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 18 Sept. 2005.*
https://garciala.blogia.com/2005/091802-suplantaciones.php
2025
_____. "Retropost, 2005: Suplantaciones." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 18 Sept. 2025.*
https://blogdenotasvanityfea.blogspot.com/2025/09/retropost-2005-suplantaciones.html
2025
https://x.com/JoseAngelGLanda/status/1968690896934944961
2025
_____. "Autopen Imperson." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 28 Feb. 2026.*
https://blogdenotasvanityfea.blogspot.com/2026/02/autopen-imperson.html
2026
Goffman, Erving. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Englewood Cliffs (NJ): Prentice-Hall, 1963.
_____. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. New York: Simon and Schuster-Touchstone, 1986.*
Klaus, Carl H. The Made-up Self: Impersonation in the Personal Essay. U of Iowa P, 2010.*
https://www.amazon.com/Made-Up-Self-Impersonation-Personal-Essay/dp/1587299135
2016
Marshall, David. "4. Fictions and Impersonations: The Double Imposture." In Marshall, The Figure of Theater: Shaftesbury, Defoe, Adam Smith and George Eliot. New York: Columbia UP, 1986. 79-104.*
Sharper. Irony in the Drama: An Essay on Impersonation, Shock and Catharsis. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1959.
See also Mimicry (Racial, ethnic, cultural); Impostors.
Films
Detour. Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer. Story and screenplay by Martin Goldsmith. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Esther Howard, Pat Gleason. PRC Pictures, 1945. Online at YouTube (Timeless Classic Movies) 8 April 2013.* (Impersonation).
2026
The Devil's Disciple. Dir. Guy Hamilton. Screenplay by John Dighton and Roland Kibbee, based on the play by G. Bernard Shaw. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Janette Scott, Eva LeGallienne, Harry Andrews, Basil Sydney, George Rose, Neil McCallum, Mervyn Johns, David Horne. Photog. Jack Hildyard. Music by Richard Rodney Bennett, dir. John Hollingsworth. Exec prod. Gilbert Kurland. Prod. Harold Hecht. UK: Associated British Elstree Studios, 1959.* YouTube (Althussein Thaer)
2014
Impostor. Dir. Gary Fleder. Based on a story by Philip K. Dick. With Gary Sinise. USA, 2003.
My Fair Lady. Dir. George Cukor. Screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner, based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel. Photog. Harry Stradling. Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, from their musical based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. Music supervisor André Previn. Scenery & prod. des. Cecil Beaton. Prod. Jack L. Warner, Panavision. Warner Bros., 1964.
2012
Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. Dir. Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard. Screenplay and dialogue by Bernard Shaw, scenario by W. P. Lipscomb and Cecil Lewis. Cast: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr, Scott Sunderland, Jean Cadell, David Tree, Everley Gregg, Leueen MacGrath, Esme Percy, Violet Vanbrugh. Photog. Harry Stradling. Art dir. John Bryan. Ed. David Lean. Music Arthur Honegger. Prod. Gabriel Pascal. UK: Pascal Film Productions / Pinewood Studios, 1938.*
2013
Literature
Bell, Mary Hayley. Whistle Down the Wind. (Fugitive murderer impersonates Christ for some children).
Browning, Robert. The Return of the Druses. 1843.
_____. The Return of the Druses. A Tragedy. In Poems by Robert Browning. Introd. Oscar Browning. London: Routledge, 1897. 289-336.*
Carrère, Emmanuel. L'Adversaire. Non-fiction novel. Paris: P.O.L., 2000. (Jean-Claude Romand, parricide).
Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders. 2nd ed. In Literature Online: Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Chadwyck-Healey.
Dickens, Charles, A Tale of Two Cities. Novel. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. many editions
Hope, Anthony. The Prisoner of Zenda. Novel. 1884.
_____. The Prisoner of Zenda. Ed. Tony Watkins. Oxford: Oxford UP.
_____. (Antonio Hope). El prisionero de Zenda. (Biblioteca Sopena, 410). Barcelona: Sopena, 1959. 1973.*
Lewis, Janet. The Wife of Martin Guerre. Novel. Colt Press, 1941.
_____. The Wife of Martin Guerre. In Anchor in the Sea. Ed. Alan Swallow. Swallow Press / William Morrow, 1947.
_____. The Wife of Martin Guerre. Denver: Alan Swallow, 1950.
_____. La Femme de Martin Guerre. Trans. Françoise O. Jobit. Paris: Laffont, 1947.
Oppenheim, E. Phillips. The Great Impersonation. Fiction. c. 1920.
Prada, Juan Manuel de. Me hallará la muerte. Barcelona: Destino, 2012.
Redondo, Dolores. Los privilegios del ángel. Novel. 2009. (Split personality, impersonation, domestic violence, traumas).
_____. Los privilegios del ángel. (Booket). Barcelona: Planeta-Destino, 2021.*
Shakespeare, William. All's Well that Ends Well. many editions
Music
Whistle Down the Wind. Musical. Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lyrics by Jim Steinman. Based on the novel by Mary Hayley Bell and the film prod. Richard Attenborough, dir. Bryan Forbes, from a screenplay by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. Book by Patricia Knop, Gale Edwards and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Music dir. Christopher Nightingale. Orchestrations by David Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Choreog. Anthony van Laast. Dir. Gale Edwards. Really Useful Theatre Company prod. (London: Aldwych Theatre).
_____. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman's Whistle down the Wind: Original Cast Recording. Marcus Lovett, Lottie Mayor, Dean Collinson, Veronica Hart, James Graeme, Walter Herron Reynolds III, John Turner, Nicolas Colicos, Reg Eppey, Christopher Howard, Rosalind James, Paul Lowe, et al. 2 CDs. London. Really Useful Records, 1999.*
See also Mistaken identities.
