Role Playing and Identity: The Limits of Theatre as Metaphor

by Bruce Wilshire

"[Wilshire] establishes a phenomenology of theatre, a theory of enactment, and a theory of appearance, none of which American theatre... has ever had." --Performing Arts Journal..". Wilshire makes unique contributions to understanding major aspects of the human condition in its necessary search for selfhood." --Process Studies"It is one of the American classics." --Human Studies

Genres: Nonfiction

320 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1982

Reviews

[Semi-Academic Eric]

Listed in the Bibliography on Play from The Art of Play by Adam Blatner.

[Summer]

Zen and Tragedy course.