The author draws on maenadism, shamanism, pagan and Christian religious traditions plus psychology and psychiatry to demonstrate how much more acting means than

"I was totally unprepared for the transformation that Seth's technique created in me. . . . I realized that what I thought I knew about acting up to that point

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Analyzing the relationship between dramatic action and the controversial art of acting, William Worthen demonstrates that what it means to act, to be an actor,