- An
impostor (also
spelled imposter) is a
person who
pretends to be
somebody else,
often through means of disguise.
Their objective is
usually to try to...
-
Imposture is a
Caroline era
stage play, a
tragicomedy written by
James Shirley and
first published in 1652.
Shirley himself considered The
Imposture the...
- Intellectuals'
Abuse of
Science (UK:
Intellectual Impostures),
first published in
French in 1997 as
Impostures intellectuelles, is a book by
physicists Alan...
-
French peasant of the 16th century, was at the
centre of a
famous case of
imposture.
Several years after Martin Guerre had left his wife,
child and village...
- L'effroyable
Imposture (or "The
Horrifying Fraud") is the
original French title of a
highly controversial and
discredited 2002 book by
French journalist...
-
Chief Buffalo Child Long
Lance (born
Sylvester Clark Long;
December 1, 1890 –
March 20, 1932) was an African-American journalist,
writer and film actor...
- Vigne [fr], and
starring Gérard Depardieu. It was
based on a case of
imposture in 16th
century France,
involving Martin Guerre. The film
relates the...
- she had declared, "and
Christianity appears to me to be the most
absurd imposture of all the religions, and I'm
puzzled that so many
people can't see through...
- Gerbi,
Alexandre Histoire occultée de la décolonisation franco-africaine:
Imposture,
refoulements et névroses, L'Harmattan 2006.
Dorothy Shipley White, Black...
- "the
whole display of hands,
spirit utterances etc., was a
cheat and
imposture." In 1902 Browning's son Pen wrote: "Home was
detected in a
vulgar fraud...