Dramatization: Selections from English Classics Adapted in Dramatic Form. Third Year"It is the aim of this volume to give practical suggestions for the dramatization of high school classics."--Pref. |
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... Story C. The Epic • D. The Ballad TEXTS : I. For Specimen Dramatizations II . For Further Suggestions BIBLIOGRAPHY : Psychology and Pedagogy of Dramatization Practical Illustrations Stage Setting and Costuming Music · Page . 5 11 14 15 ...
... Story C. The Epic • D. The Ballad TEXTS : I. For Specimen Dramatizations II . For Further Suggestions BIBLIOGRAPHY : Psychology and Pedagogy of Dramatization Practical Illustrations Stage Setting and Costuming Music · Page . 5 11 14 15 ...
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... story of Christ and the saints . The religious idea yielded gradually to the popular desire for amusement ; the holy day became the holiday . There has been incidental use of the drama as a means of instruction in the schools ever since ...
... story of Christ and the saints . The religious idea yielded gradually to the popular desire for amusement ; the holy day became the holiday . There has been incidental use of the drama as a means of instruction in the schools ever since ...
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... story they use , ' says Porter Landor MaeClintock in Literature in the Elementary School . 99 Much is being done ... stories in the first few grades is rather widespread . But as he progresses from grade to grade , less and less dramatic ...
... story they use , ' says Porter Landor MaeClintock in Literature in the Elementary School . 99 Much is being done ... stories in the first few grades is rather widespread . But as he progresses from grade to grade , less and less dramatic ...
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... story , or the making of a drama writ small , as in the short stories here treated , the Robin Hood Ballads , and Gareth and Lynette . Fourth , the dramatization of the whole plot through the selection from the novel of leading scenes ...
... story , or the making of a drama writ small , as in the short stories here treated , the Robin Hood Ballads , and Gareth and Lynette . Fourth , the dramatization of the whole plot through the selection from the novel of leading scenes ...
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... story ; that the unit selected is essentially dramatic ; and that it is adapted to high school presentation . Such scenes , for example , as the fight in the round - house in Kidnapped , the slaughter of the suitors in the Odyssey , the ...
... story ; that the unit selected is essentially dramatic ; and that it is adapted to high school presentation . Such scenes , for example , as the fight in the round - house in Kidnapped , the slaughter of the suitors in the Odyssey , the ...
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Achaeans Achilles Agamemnon Alan Allin arms BARSAD Beatrix brother Calchas CALYPSO CASTLEWOOD chap Characters child Chingachgook Chryses COMUS costumes CRUNCHER curtain rises dance David dear DEFARGE Delaware dialogue Doctor door DOWLAS dramatic drink DUPIN Eppie Esmond Eteoneus eyes father Feathertop Gareth GODFREY goes GURTH hand hath HAWKEYE head heart HERMIT Heyward high school host Jacques King Knight Lancelot Landlord Laughing Lavaine Lenape lines Little John look LORD LYNETTE Magua maid Master Marner MENDER OF ROADS MENELAUS merry MISS PROSS Mohicans MOTHER RIGBY never Odysseus PEISISTRATUS pipe PREFECT Priam Primrose Reading Robin Hood Rustum SCARECROW scene seat SILAS Silas Marner SILVER sing SIR PERCIVALE sits Sohrab song speak Squire stage stands stanzas story stranger tableau Tamenund Telemachus tell thee there's thine thou art thou hast turns Uncas YOUNG JERRY Zeus
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Page 81 - Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Page 10 - The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
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Page 49 - So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm • To every Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo for evermore!
Page 90 - That must be utter'd to unfold the sage And serious doctrine of virginity; And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know More happiness than this thy present lot. Enjoy your dear wit, and gay rhetoric, That...
Page 10 - Shaped by himself with newly-learned art; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral; And this hath now his heart, And unto this he frames his song: Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business, love, or strife; But it will not be long Ere this be thrown aside, And with new joy and pride The little actor cons another part ; Filling from time to time his
Page 95 - But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.
Page 85 - Get up, get up for shame ; the blooming morn Upon her wings presents the god unshorn : See how Aurora throws her fair Fresh-quilted colours through the air : Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree...
Page 21 - Of court, and been estatlich of manere, And to ben holden digne of reverence. But, for to speken of hir conscience, She was so charitable and so pitous, She wolde wepe, if that she sawe a mous Caught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde.