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ERIC Number: EJ553716
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0098-6291
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Using Performance as an Interpretive Strategy in Teaching Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess."
Schevera, Nicholas
Teaching English in the Two-Year College, v24 n3 p216-19 Oct 1997
Uses role-playing, dramatic monologues, and "tableaux vivant" to interpret Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess" in an introductory literature class at Westchester Community College. Notes that performative strategies illustrate connections in the poem that often remain unnoticed on a first reading. (PA)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Community Colleges, Dramatics, English Literature, Introductory Courses, Literature Appreciation, Poetry, Role Playing, Student Participation, Teaching Methods, Two Year Colleges
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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