Drama
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Applied theatre: performing the future.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: This paper provides an introduction to applied theatre and performance as a body of practice that may enhance the wellbeing of Indigenous communities. Applied theatre forms are conceptualized along a continuum from 'performance-oriented' ... Read more...

Tacit knowledge of caring and embodied selfhood.

14 Apr 2009 The tacit knowledge paradigm is gaining recognition as an important source of knowledge that informs clinical decision-making. It is, however, limited by an exclusive focus on knowledge acquired through clinical practice, and a consequent neglect of ... Read more...

[Self-harm in fiction literature]

14 Apr 2009 European literature contains fictional descriptions of self-harm and self-punishment over a time span of almost 2 500 years. This article presents such descriptions, from Sofocles' tragedy about King Oedipus to contemporary literature. Particular ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Drama'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Who lives? (We all do now--but it wasn't always that way). 30 Jul 2009
• Agave, Salome and the Enchanted Heads: mind and body dialectics in Euripides' and Oscar Wilde's work. 30 Jul 2009
• Applied theatre: performing the future. 30 Jul 2009
• Sarah Bernhardt's missing leg. 23 Jul 2009
• [Medical studies today: patient actors and "hammer examination"] 12 Jul 2009
• [Addenda to the life of Albert Szent-Györgyi ] 29 Jun 2009
• The last cigarette. 29 Jun 2009
• Physician, heal thyself: Arthur Miller, Henrik Ibsen, and the enemies of the people. 15 Jun 2009
• Q&A: Acting the part. Anna Deavere Smith is interviewed by Jascha Hoffman. 2 Jun 2009
• [Here the artists compete for jobs in the health sector] 30 May 2009
• Duet for one, Almeida Theatre, London (January 22nd to March 14th 2009). 29 Apr 2009
• Tacit knowledge of caring and embodied selfhood. 14 Apr 2009
• [Self-harm in fiction literature] 14 Apr 2009
• Biodiversity, medicine, and Shakespeare. 6 Apr 2009
• Sibling jealousy and aesthetic ambiguity in Austen's Pride and Prejudice. 30 Mar 2009
• Imaginative literature and Bion's intersubjective theory of thinking. 30 Mar 2009
• The clash of irrationalities in Sophocles' Antigone. 30 Mar 2009
• The death of Hamnet: an essay on grief and creativity. 30 Mar 2009
• The inability to mourn and the inability to love in Shakespeare's Hamlet. 30 Mar 2009
• Selfobject as dramatis personae: cultivating the improvisational in self-psychological psychoanalysis. 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Drama'

Definition: A composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving various characters, usually intended to be acted on a stage and to be regarded as a form of entertainment. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

Descriptor UI: D004324

Alternative terms: Drama; Dramas;

Allowable Qualifiers: history;

Tree Number: K01.517.333;

Online Note: search LITERATURE 1966-74

History Note: 91(75); was see under LITERATURE 1975-90

Technical Notes: coord IM with LITERATURE, MEDIEVAL (IM) or LITERATURE, MODERN (IM); docudrama as a stage presentation goes here