Theatre for Youth: Twelve Plays with Mature Themes

by Coleman A. Jennings

Book Overview

Since the beginning of the theatre-for-youth movement in the United States, the majority of plays written for children have been fairy tales. By the 1960s, however, encouraged by changes in social attitudes toward children, playwrights began to respond to a growing tendency on the parts of both parents and teachers to have children face, rather than avoid, the more difficult truths of existence. Thus children's dramatic literature was opened to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292780850
• ISBN13: 9780292780859
• Release Date: June 1986
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher