Describes and analyzes Sauvigny's republican tragedy, "Vashington ou la liberte du Nouveau Monde" (Washington or New World Liberty), from literary and historical points of view. (DB)

Reports results from an experiment conducted to discover relationships between theatre audience members' information processing abilities and their responses to performed plays and to the characters in the play. (MH)

A student production of German drama may consist of a connected series of short dramatizations of works by several different authors rather than one long play. Such a format does not tax language abilities, dramatic talent, time, or stage facilities as much. The dramatic pieces of one revue are described. (CHK)

Presents a brief overview of previous psychoanalytically based theories of Shakespeare's plays, particularly "Hamlet," and defends the notion of introducing undergraduates to psychoanalytically based criticism because of the insights it may give students into their own lives. (JC)

The article addresses the use of sign language and drama with young children with such disabilities as mental retardation, aphasia, autism, and other language learning disorders. Examples of activities that integrate creative drama techniques with sign language techniques are offered. (DB)

Describes "story drama," a technique in which the texts of stories or novels are presented as plays, and shows how it can be used to teach content areas in elementary grades. (ARH)

Points out that if students are to learn to negotiate meaning, they must have opportunities to use a balanced combination of informational, expressive, and interactional language. Describes three teaching strategies which are important in nurturing a range of language in the drama classroom: questioning, reflecting, and teacher in role. (ARH)

Examined each book in 8 basal reading series (preprimers to sixth readers) to determine the variety of types of writing in these 1983 basals. Texts were examined for the number of selections representing narrative, poetry, plays, exposition, biography, hybrid writing types and for the number of pages devoted to each type of writing. (Author/NH)

An intensive five-day all-day humanities course on 18th century thought and culture for eighth graders that involved 11 different departments is described. The course helped students recognize that what they were taught in one class could reinforce and illuminate what they were learning in another course. (RM)

A case study of a senior-level school economics course in which students are being introduced to a research assignment serves as an example of the application of a humanistic metaphor to the reporting of social studies teaching. Guidelines for constructing and writing such a report are presented. (RM)

Three articles about Victor Hugo and his work focus on commemorative publications and exhibits in recognition of the 100-year anniversary of his death and on his theatrical works. (MSE)

Analyzes associations among different role operators quantitatively by taking input strings from 200 abstracts, each related to subject fields of taxation, genetic psychology, and Shakespearean drama, and subjecting them to the Chi-square test. Significant associations by other differencing operators and connectives are discussed. A schema of role…

Discusses the character of Claudius in "Hamlet" to determine the character's sincerity. (DF)

Contends that every individual should be offered the educational opportunity to develop aesthetically by exposure to the techniques, processes, and products of the arts. Discusses how, where, and by whom arts-in-education can be implemented. (PD)

Reports how the use of drama allowed children to focus on issues raised by the text and to bring their own experience to bear on working through problems. (CRH)