Guiding High Schools students with language and learning disabilities, autism, and intellectual disabilities in writing original dramatic pieceson a given theme. Their 3 poems, 7 monologues, and 4 partner scenes were merged into a Theme Theatre script that was then performed by the school’s drama...
The distrust these poems exhibit toward the efficacy of speaking to others, however, need not extend to the reader. Rather, the genre of the dramatic monologue offers the poets a way to sidestep dialogue altogether: by inducing the reader to inhabit the female speaker's first-person voice--...
From Naqqali to Shahnameh Recitation It has been very common to narrate and tell stories during long nights of winter and Ramadan. Naqqals (story-tellers) used to tell the stories of Abu-Moslem, Samak-e Ayar, and Darab Nameh with poems and songs. Many literary works, like poems of Ferdo...
Like many thousands of other people, I am fond of reading and fond of going to the theatre. In regard to my reading, I have no complaint to make—for the press supplies me abundantly with English poems, histories, biographies, novels, essays, travels, criticisms, all of modern production....