Ever feel like your life is a performance? Everyone does – and a 1959 book explains roles, scripts and hiding backstage
- Written by: Michael James Walsh, Associate Professor in Social Sciences, University of Canberra
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Shakespeare’s adage — “All the world’s a stage” — suggests human beings are conditioned to perform, and to possess an acute social awareness of how they appear in front of others.
It resonates in the age of...