playactor

Carroll Johnson confirms the transition from an imitative artistic representation to a more serious engagement with reality since "what begins as fun, an effort to turn life into a form of theater, ends by involving playactors in something deadly serious [...] [b]ecause the duke and duchess and all their servants make a great show of taking Don Quixote seriously and treating him as a real knight-errant" (66).

These playactors are a disgrace to the honest politicians such as Tony Benn and George Galloway who have more integrity in their little finger than most of them have in their bodies.