Peter Thomson obituary (opens in new tab)

Influential drama professor who espoused the theory of ‘learning by doing’Historically, drama was taught in British universities in English departments, as a branch of literature. With the foundation of a dedicated undergraduate drama course at Bristol in 1947, the subject broke free, emerging as a separate discipline, about plays in performance rather than texts in the study. A key figure in that transformation was Peter Thomson, the first professor of drama at Exeter University, who has die...