This essay is aimed at students and teachers of dramatic literature and encourages a teaching method which seelcs to elicit responses based on performance. The two teaching activities described are practica1 drama workshops complemented by the viewing of film andlor television versions of the same play on video. The banquet scene from Macbeth (Act 3, Scene 4) is analysed from the point of view of what students can learn from the two complementary methods. There is also a similar, though much briefer, treatment of an extract from Strindberg's Miss Julie to indicate how such an approach can be used when teaching any form of dramatic literature. The condusion drawn is that such teaching methods encourage an active learning experience. A performance demands a close study of the text, while the text in turn should be treated as a blueprint for performance.
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