ivity and requires the reader to posses those cognitive skills involved individually. Where power once rested in the hands of religious leaders and ruling parties, who disseminated information orally, it slowly shifted into the hands of those individuals who possessed the ability to read, empowering the individual. The printed word also propelled a sense of the individual in that one's name could be permanently fixed in print. Authorship became important for the first time in history, as ideas were ascribed fixedly to specific writers. Out of this atmosphere came the idea of the humanist man, who had the ability to change the world in his likeness, and change himself. This is important because enemies of acting, who also tended to be the enemies of the humanist man, held that the impersonation that actors took part in, wherein peasants had the opportunity to play kings and men to play women, broke with the idea of a chain of being. With the growing individualistic sentiment that came with wide
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