ABSTRACT
Drama is commonly a sub-division of the English department's activities, possibly supported by its own qualified specialist but often dependent on the enthusiasm and haphazardly garnered skills of English teachers generally. The relationship between English and drama in terms of status and subject content is varied, unresolved and often controversial. The stress in claims for literature in English teaching has always lain from this standpoint on its moral value. English and drama need a coherent theory of eclecticism to account for discrepant values and justify the diversity of what they do. Teaching English and drama is therefore a multiple and complex process, in which concealed discordances of value may set one class room activity at odds with another, or even with itself. The teaching of English and drama, then, is clearly rooted in explicit and implicit concern with values.
