This article charts the collaborative production of a play designed to show that performing literary history enables students' perception of history as process and performance. The play Before & After highlighted conventions of seventeenth-century prologues, epilogues, and gendered theatrical performance techniques through students' performances and participation in a postproduction survey.

Review Article| October 01 2005 Inspiration and Delight: Integrating a Scholarly Study of Children's Literature into the Eighteenth-Century Literature Class Leslie Ritchie Leslie Ritchie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Pedagogy (2005) 5 (3): 510–517. https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-5-3-510 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Leslie Ritchie; Inspiration and Delight: Integrating a Scholarly Study of Children's Literature into the Eighteenth-Century Literature Class. Pedagogy 1 October 2005; 5 (3): 510–517. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-5-3-510 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsPedagogy Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2005 Duke University Press2005 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Roundtable: The Making of the Modern Child: Children’s Literature and Childhood in the Late Eighteenth Century You do not currently have access to this content.