Shafer Earlham College Abstract The present study examined affective and cognitive empathy in preschool children. ... Numerous studies have illustrated a strong positive correlation between age and ability to empathize. ... In the second program, empathy was developed using drama and stories. ... In the condition emphasizing stories and drama, children showed an even greater increase in these behaviors. These results indicate that empathy can be consciously taught, and that utilizing drama and stories, where children can take on and see and hear the role of another, is a very effective...

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When he discovered that one of Stanislavski's actors, Richard Boleslavsky, had stayed on in New York, Strasberg began to study with him. ... The Group Theatre "specialised in grittily realistic, socially orientated drama" (Counsell 1996: 52). ...

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Soliloquies are when the characters are alone or at least they think they are and often used in drama, because there is no narrative point of view. ... Hamlets age is open to interpretation; however he is often known to be in young adulthood, since he returns from university studies to come home after his father's death. ...

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