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  2. Play (activity) - Wikipedia

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    Play is a range of intrinsically motivated activities done for recreational pleasure and enjoyment. [ 1 ] Play is commonly associated with children and juvenile-level activities, but may be engaged in at any life stage, and among other higher-functioning animals as well, most notably mammals and birds.

  3. The Importance of Being Earnest - Wikipedia

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    The Importance of Being Earnest. The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde, the last of his four drawing-room plays, following Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893) and An Ideal Husband (1895). First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it ...

  4. Learning through play - Wikipedia

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    Learning through play. Learning through play is a term used in education and psychology to describe how a child can learn to make sense of the world around them. Through play children can develop social and cognitive skills, mature emotionally, and gain the self-confidence required to engage in new experiences and environments.

  5. Homo Ludens - Wikipedia

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    Publication date. 1938 [1] Publication place. Netherlands. Published in English. 1949. Homo Ludens is a book originally published in Dutch in 1938 [2] by Dutch historian and cultural theorist Johan Huizinga. [3] It discusses the importance of the play element of culture and society. [4] Huizinga suggests that play is primary to and a necessary ...

  6. History of theatre - Wikipedia

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    A number of other plays from the period survive, including La Seinte Resurrection , The Play of the Magi Kings , and Sponsus . The importance of the High Middle Ages in the development of theatre was the economic and political changes that led to the formation of guilds and the growth of towns.

  7. Play therapy - Wikipedia

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    Playfulness by Paul Manship, 1912–1914. Play therapy is an evidence based approach for children that allows them to find ways to learn, process their emotions, and make meaning of the world around them. Play therapy can be used for several reasons including trauma, autism, behavior, attachment, and language.

  8. The Importance of Being Earnest (2002 film) - Wikipedia

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    Budget. $15 million. Box office. $17.2 million. The Importance of Being Earnest is a 2002 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Oliver Parker, based on Oscar Wilde 's classic 1895 comedy of manners of the same name. The original music score is composed by Charlie Mole. The film grossed $8.4 million in North America.

  9. Parten's stages of play - Wikipedia

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    Stages of play is a theory and classification of children's participation in play developed by Mildred Parten Newhall in her 1929 dissertation. [1] Parten observed American preschool age (ages 2 to 5) children at free play (defined as anything unrelated to survival, production or profit).