Plato spoke of the “stage of human life” [11] and Shakespeare crafted the famous sentence “All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players” [12]. In the 20th century, Erving Goffman also followed a dramaturgical analogy in his seminal book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, in which he said, “All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify.”[13]
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