Role Playing and Identity : The Limits of Theatre as Metaphor

"[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