Eleven easy-to-read, funny plays for children based on Ovid's "Metamorphoses", very suitable for class performance or reading aloud, with a range of main characters and crowd scenes. Especially good for young students of literature of the Greek and Roman worlds. Each play involves a transformation and is written in conversational English, while keeping as much as possible to the dramatic and playful spirit of Ovid's original. Included are plays based on the stories of Icarus and Daedalus; Arachne; Daphne and Apollo; Pygmalion; Io; Erysichthon; Atalanta; Echo and Narcissus; Philemon and Baucis; Ariadne and Theseus; and King Midas.
These plays were first published in the NSW Department of Education's "School Magazine".
Pages
162
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
January 01, 2017
The Boy who could Fly: Eleven plays for children inspired by stories from the Metamorphoses of Ovid
Eleven easy-to-read, funny plays for children based on Ovid's "Metamorphoses", very suitable for class performance or reading aloud, with a range of main characters and crowd scenes. Especially good for young students of literature of the Greek and Roman worlds. Each play involves a transformation and is written in conversational English, while keeping as much as possible to the dramatic and playful spirit of Ovid's original. Included are plays based on the stories of Icarus and Daedalus; Arachne; Daphne and Apollo; Pygmalion; Io; Erysichthon; Atalanta; Echo and Narcissus; Philemon and Baucis; Ariadne and Theseus; and King Midas.
These plays were first published in the NSW Department of Education's "School Magazine".