WILSHIRE BRUCE

(P/B) ROLE PLAYING AND IDENTITY
What do actors accomplish when they play characters on stage? Bruce Wilshire contends that through deliberate mimetic involvement they attempt to display how we are already mimetically involved with others offstage--bound up with them and authorized by them through imitation. Demonstrating that theatre is life-like and that life is theatre-like, he makes use of a phenomenological methodology to establish that acting is more than just role playing; it is the process of creating the self. (From the publisher)...
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