English Dramatic Form

Author : Sarah E. Simons
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ISBN 13 : 9781331727378
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Dramatization written by Sarah E. Simons and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dramatization: Selection From English Classics Adapted in Dramatic Form It is the aim of this volume to give practical suggestions for the dramatization of high school classics. The teaching experience of the authors leads them to believe that dramatization of the literature studied is one of the most successful of all devices for vitalizing the work of the English class. Moreover, the imagined difficulties in the way of high school dramatization vanish entirely on nearer view or become, in the working out, a stimulus to invention. The selections here treated are familiar to students in the secondary schools. The dramatic illustrations offered are type studies and are intended as a working basis for teachers and pupils in developing similar exercises. To facilitate their use in the classroom, they are grouped, according to the usual high school English course, in four parts, one for each year respectively; and are published independently in pamphlet form expressly for the convenience of pupils. This grouping is necessarily somewhat arbitrary. Most of the selections may be used in any year, irrespective of their place in the series of pamphlets. Their purpose is to instruct, the idea of amusement and entertainment, from the nature of the case, being wholly incidental. This book is sent to high school teachers with the earnest hope that it may point the way to making the regular, not the holiday, dramatization of literature an effective instrument in the teaching of English. Let us turn literature into life for the pupil and we shall give him an amulet, at whose magic touch new worlds arc opened, - we shall give him in deed and in truth "that old enchanted Arabian grain, the Sesame, which opens doors; - doors, not of robbers', but of Kings' Treasuries." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.