Meanings
- dateduncountableDated form of roleplaying.
The contradictoriness and multifacetedness of identity is a constant theme in a play which deals so centrally with ideas of plays, illusion, rôle-playing and theatricality.
1991, Michael Mangan, “‘Break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue’”, in A Preface to Shakespeare’s Tragedies (Preface Books), London; New York, N.Y.: Longman, →ISBN, part 3 (Critical Analysis: […]), page 1332 more examples
Psychiatric disorder is less often associated with somatic impairment, and rôle-playing is the more significant part. The self may enact its distress as well as explain it, but the enactment can be misconstrued.
1982, David C. Taylor, “The Components of Sickness: Diseases, Illnesses and Predicaments”, in John Apley, Christopher Ounsted, editors, One Child (Clinics in Developmental Medicine; 80), London: William Heinemann Medical Books; Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott Co., →ISBN, page 7As in their previous production Winston Ntshona played the character who lacks natural versatility in rôle-playing while John Kani, as in his rôles of Styles and Buntu, played the character who embraces and celebrates the possibilities of theatricality.
1996, Brian Crow, “‘A Truly Living Moment’: Acting and the Statements Plays”, in Geoffrey V. Davis, Anne Fuchs, editors, Theatre and Change in South Africa (Contemporary Theatre Studies; 12), Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 21
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of rôle-play
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