This language arts minicourse guide for Lampeter-Strasburg (Pennsylvania) High School contains a topical outline of a drama course. The guide includes a list of eleven course objectives; an outline of the types of drama to be studied in the course; a description of the course content and concepts to be studied, including staging, acting, and…

This sophomore English curriculum guide for the secondary school provides (1) behavioral objectives, written work assignments, directions and a list of book selections for varying levels of prose literature and American literature; (2) assignment sheets for a freshman skills review and for compositions using analogy, explanation of a process,…

An Afro-American literature course was established at Chicago City College to present a survey of writers who reflected the Black experience in America and to examine their works as artistic entities in their historical and sociological context. Background lectures on many aspects of Afro-American literature accompanied studies of material grouped…

Miguel de Cervantes' capture by the Turks and his imprisonment in Argel (Morocco) during the Battle of Lepanto in the sixteenth century have been studied by literary critics who have endeavored to determine fiction and reality in certain episodes of "Don Quijote" and in the drama, "Los banos de Argel". Twelve documents…

Australian Literature, in spite of the cultural and creative handicaps imposed on a developing country, is becoming accepted on the international literary scene. Contemporary novels and drama have imaginatively combined characteristic Australian themes and myths with European artistic traditions, while poetry has shown a concern with universal…

Stimulating and enjoyable dramatic activities in the classroom can nurture children's natural sympathies with drama. Re-acting a portion of a second-rate television show can help children become more perceptive critics and prepare them to view better drama that the teacher could bring to the classroom. Free, creative rhythmic movement allows…

Prepared by the Episcopal Church, this booklet describes programs of adult Christian Education in other Christian Churches as well as those of the Episcopal Church; they show a diversity in approach, execution, and long range results. The three chapters cover Religion and Life, the Church in the World, and Understanding the Christian Heritage.…

In his plays, Shakespeare reveals a double view of life by repeatedly juxtaposing a representation of the comic spirit with the tragic protagonist. In the idiom of Shakespeare's world, heroic characters often embarrass or destroy themselves by confusing appearance with reality. Then, the comic characters or "mad men," functioning as…

The main purpose of this book is to provide directional pointers on the reasons for and ways of developing and integrating several program areas in the field of recreation. Suggestions are given on the uses of the book by persons involved with or interested in recreation. The book provides a composite picture of the major aspects, kinds, and forms…

A twelve-hour program focusing on a day in jail which was organized by the Kean College departments of Fine Arts, Sociology, and English provided students with some concepts of what a day in jail is really like, and helped them to understand the necessity of creativity--study, writing, acting, painting, or even protesting--for survival. Inspired…

This investigation examines the historical influences on the New Theatre in terms of a figural tradition and suggests that the New English may also be analyzed in terms of a figural tradition. In part 1, a new theory of the "historical figura" is proposed. The first chapter describes the origins of the "human figura" in…

Confined to the interaction of subject sex with stimulus complexity, this paper reports a portion of the results of an experimental study which hypothesized a series of relationships between theatre audience members' information-processing abilities and their responses to complex and simple plays. The subjects for the study were 60 female and 30…

The articles and authors featured in this issue are: "Preparing for Future Shock in English and Reading Instruction" by James R. Squire, "Great Expectations: Communicative Arts in the High School; or, Resetting the Clocks" by R. W. Reising and R. J. Rundus, "Some Expectations in English for College Freshmen" by May Jane Tillman, "The Role of the…

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Edith Kern, Claude-Edmonde Magny, Henri Peyre, Kenneth Douglas, Edmund Wilson, Theophil Spoerri, Jacques Guicharnaud, Eric Bentley, Robert Champigny, Oreste F. Pucciani, Frederic Jameson, Rene Girard, Guido…

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Jacques Guicharnaud, Rene Bray, Gustave Lanson, Alfred Simon, Will G. Moore, Ramon Fernandez, Paul Benichou, Lionel Gossman, Andre Villiers, James Doolittle, H. Gaston Hall, Robert J. Nelson, Jacques Copeau, Charles…