How to Teach a Play: Essential Exercises for Popular Plays

About this book

Most students encounter drama as they do poetry and fiction—as literature to be read—but never experience the performative nature of theater. How to Teach a Play provides new strategies for teaching dramatic literature and offers practical, play-specific exercises that demonstrate how performance illuminates close reading of the text. This practical guide provides a new generation of teachers and theatre professionals the tools to develop their students' performative imagination.