Annotated listing of latest ERIC documents on teaching, interpreting, and producing Shakespearean plays. (CH)

Introductory courses in acting and directing should be combined. (CH)

Sheding self-consciousness by donning another personality, and then hearing the approving laughter and applause of their classmates fills children with great excitement as well as a sense of wonder about what they have accomplished. (Author)

The Detroit Public Schools' Children's Museum offers a unique service for any individual or group interested in puppetry as a learning experience. (Author)

Describes an experimental course in informal German conversation and dramatics at the University of California, Berkeley, California. (RS)

For forty years, the nursery school movement has emphasized play as part of the socialization process, but in the past few years, much research has been aimed at the question of stimulating cognitive development in the preschool years, especially for culturally deprived children. (Author/CB)

Course development funded by the Small Grants Program of the Council of Liberal Education at the Center for Educational Development, University of Minnesota. (DD)

Suggests that the effective prerequisites for teaching methods courses are cheerleading, modern dance, and dramatics. Follows acting methods and mental attitudes of Polish director, Jerzy Grotowski. (DS)

Long Island, New York, youngsters cast inhibitions to the wind and felt right at home with creative drama-as much a part of their daily schedule as math and reading. (Editor)

Describes a program of open education for frustrated English teachers which helped them to regain their confidence and to restructure their approach to teaching so as to enhance creativity. (AN)

Illustrated. (RD)

Describes students' in-class dramatic interpretations of selected portions of "Romeo and Juliet . (RD)

Interview took place in March 1969 in Paris. (DS)