Actors' transnational theatrical activities had cultural significance in promoting reconciliation among people and building a peaceful world. This made them world-citizen models for the practice of contemporary multiculturalism, while also expanding their social authority as global theater icons.This study targets the discourse on actors and theater in the 16th-19th centuries and theorizes about their educational function, commercial spirit, and cosmopolitan critical consciousness against local and oppressive social structures.The eight chapters examine actors as cosmopolitan figures in terms...