“I called the little pool a sea;
The little hills were big to me;
For I am very small.
I made a boat, I made a town,
I searched the caverns up and down,
And named them one and all.
This was the world and I was king;
For me the bees came by to sing,
For me the swallows flew.”
--_Robert Louis Stevenson._
Dramatic Play and Games--Serial Dramatic Play--Folk
Dancing--Dramatic Parties--Pantomime and
Tableaux--Dramatized Work--Home Discipline Through
the Dramatic Instinct--Clubs Based on Imaginative
Play--Dramatic Self-Government--Dramatics in the
Church--Summary--References.
AT the outset, a clear distinction must be made between the teaching
of dramatics as made use of in theatricals, whether private or public,
and the cultivation of dramatic imitation or its use in the enlargement
of the child’s general knowledge and experience. The main purpose of
this essay is to show in what a wide range of activities this dramatic
impulse expresses itself wholesomely in a child’s life. The earliest of
these is through dramatic play.