Features more than fifty classic poems by such authors as Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, e.e. cummings, and Lewis Carroll, all scripted for dramatization in the classroom or onstage, along with suggested discussion topics.
Acknowledgments iii Introduction ix PART I: GETTING STARTED The Three Principles of Good Acting 1(4) The Four Principles of Effective Stage Speech 5(6) The Mechanics 11(6) Directing a Poetry Performance 17(17) Incorporating Costume Pieces and Rhythm Instruments 34(9) Developing English Language and Adpating Poems to Develop English 43(7) A Model Lesson: Nonsense Verse and Tennysons The Eagle 50(11) Introducing the Dramatization of Poetry 51(5) Performing The Eagle as a Play 56(3) Dramatizing in Groups 59(2) Choosing and Adapting Poems to Dramatize 61(6) PART II: DRAMATIZING POETRY Dramatizing Limericks 67(190) About Limericks 67(1) Ways to Dramatize 67(2) Seventeen Limericks Dramatized 69(5) Topics for Critical Thinking, Writing, and Art 74(2) Dramatizing Lyrical Poetry About Lyrical Poetry 76(85) A Snowy Day 77(3) Anonymous Louise Thistle Sumer Is Icumen In 80(3) Anonymous The Lamb 83(3) William Blake The Tyger 86(3) In Just- 89(3) e. e. cummings Interview with Mable Todd (1830-86), Friend of Emily Dickinsons Brother, Austin 92(3) Emily Dickinson A Bird Came Down the Walk 95(3) A Word is Dead 98(2) Im Nobody! Who Are You? 100(3) Will There Really Be a Morning? 103(3) Dramatized Interview with Robert Frost (1874-1963) 106(3) Robert Frost The Pasture 109(3) The Road Not Taken 112(3) The Runaway 115(3) The Robin 118(2) Thomas Hardy Dramatized Interview with Langston Hughes (1902-67) 120(2) Langston Hughes Dreams 122(3) Mother to Son 125(3) The Negro Speaks of Rivers 128(3) Dramatized Interview with Christina Rossetti (1830-94) 131(3) Christina Rossetti Caterpillar 134(3) Uphill 137(3) Fog 140(2) Carl Sandburg Dramatized Interview with William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 142(3) William Shakespeare Double, Double Toil and Troble... from Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 1 145(3) Winter from Loves Labours Lost, Act 5, Scene 2 148(3) The Eagle 151(4) Alfred Lord Tennyson O Captain! My Captain! 155(3) Walt Whitman I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 158(3) William Wordsworth Dramatizing Ballads About Ballads 161(19) The Ballad of John Henry 162(5) Anonymous Louise Thistle The Raven 167(6) Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee 173(4) Richard Cory 177(3) Edward Arlington Robinson Dramatizing Nonsense Verse About Nonsense Verse 180(10) Jabberwocky 181(5) Lewis Carroll Father William 186(4) Dramatizing Historical Narrative Poetry About Historical Narrative Poetry 190(18) Paul Reveres Ride (Scripted to perform) 191(17) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Part III PERFORMING POETRY A Poetry Performance Producing This Poetry Performance 208(4) Performance Opening 212(1) Scene One: Nonsense Verse 212(6) Scene Two: Limericks 218(6) Scene Three: Nature Poems 224(7) Scene Four: Animal Poetry 231(8) Scene Five: Finale 239(2) Production Notes 241(3) APPENDICES Glossary of Drama and Literary Terms 244(5) Indices Subject Index Across the Curriculum 249(5) Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines 254(3) Selected Bibliography 257
