Guise at Troynovant:
dissemblance on masks, disguise,
camouflage;
roles & avatars,
acting & reenactment;
listed by Title
  

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.
  

Oh, those Greeks! They knew how to live. What is required for that is to stop courageously at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore appearance, to believe in forms, tones, words, in the whole Olympus of appearance. Those Greeks were superficial — out of profundity. And is not this precisely what we are again coming back to, we daredevils of the spirit who have climbed the highest and most dangerous peak of present thought and looked around from up there — we who have looked down from there? Are we not, precisely in this respect, Greeks? Adorers of forms, of tones, of words? And therefore — artists?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Preface for the Second Edition, section 4
The Gay Science  (1882, 1887)
translated by Walter Kaufmann

  
[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

  
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