Identifier: dramaticmethodof00finl (find matches)
Title: The dramatic method of teaching
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Finlay-Johnson, Harriet Cyr, Ellen M., d. 1920, ed
Subjects: Drama in education Teaching Schools
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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y one for girls as well as boys,I give that on the reign of Elizabeth, as it was partlyadapted from Kenilworth and partly originated by indi-vidual scholars. It is copied from one of the girls note-books. The boys had fixed up the movable blackboardtable as a tobacco stall ; other stalls were arranged on thefront desks ; while the space in front was supposed to rep-resent a street in old London — the chorus generally saidCheapside. All those taking part in the play were rangedat one end of the room, which we called off stage. Thoseleft seated in the desks and called chorus then describedthe scene as they imagined it to be — narrow streets badlypaved with cobblestones, stalls with market women keep-ing them and calling their wares, and idle apprentices. Scene I. The Market Enter two Market Women with baskets of wares. Appren-tices scattered about the stalls, calling, What dyelack?First Woman. Hast heard the news that Philip hathsent a large fleet of ships to England against us ? 44
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45 THE ADAPTED PLAY 47 Second Woman. Odds, woman ! thou dost surprise me. First Woman. There are hundreds and hundreds ofthem, and I did hear that a man named Drake and someof his friends were playing at bowls down at PlymouthHoe, when another man came riding up to them and toldthem that the Spanish were in the Channel. The goodQueen, God bless her! went down to see the army, ridingon her gray pony. Enter Third Market Woman, while a Man draws near tolisten, eating a large apple Third Woman. Do you know that the English aresending out fire ships ? Second Woman. Lawk-a-mussey-me ! What are they ? Third Woman. Why, they are old vessels filled withtar, and gunpowder, and things that will burn easily. Theyturn these adrift among the enemys ships and they eitherset fire to the other ships or blow them up. Second Woman. They say the Spanish ships sail in ahalf-moon shape. Man. ( With apple\ Ah, it wants stout English heartslike mine to fight the Spaniards ! First Woman. Methinks your stomach

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