Children and Drama compiled by Nellie McCaslin is a book, which encompasses works by many different authors. All of these articles seem to have a common theme, children in theater. By reviewing four articles we are able to come up with common methods amongst the authors. The four articles I chose to review were “Thoughts on Creative Process” by Virginia Tanner, “The Theater: A Side View” by Moses Goldberg, “From Literature to Drama to Life” by Nancy King, and “Drama-At the Core of the Curriculum” by John Hodgson. This essay will look at each piece individually and then bring them all together and see the similarities and differences throughout.

“The Theater: A Side View” by Moses Goldberg

Creative drama is defined in this article by the “process of guiding the child to create”(128). Moses defines this because theater is the product of creation therefore creative drama is subsequently considered theater on some level.

Moses uses the approach of laboratory research to further develop the ideas of creative drama. This approach would allow the researchers to contain the variables and manipulate them (129). That would then allow researchers to see ho

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