How to Produce Children's Plays (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from How to Produce Children's Plays This book is intended to be a guide-post on the road that leads to the adequate producing of plays for children. For that reason it includes a history of the children's play movement, a chapter on its sociological aspects and suggestions for new fields, as well as chapters on play-producing, scenery, costumes, and properties. It also gives a full list of plays adapted to the public schools, arranged according to the school grades, and a bibliography of child-drama for special holidays, and for camp and settlement use. Portions of this book have appeared in the following magazines and newspapers, to whom thanks are due for permission to republish: The Survey, The Normal Instructor, The Playground, The Popular Educator, Primary Education, The New York Sun, and Educational Dramatics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.