文档介绍：Drama and Intelligence
Drama and
Intelligence
A Cognitive Theory
RICHARD COURTNEY
McGiii·Queen•s Universiry Press
Montreal & Kingston • London • Buffalo
C MeGill-Queen's Univeniry Press 1990
ISBN 0-77JS·0]66·J
Legal deposit 4th quarter 1990
Bibliothtque nationale du Qu~
Printed in Canada on acid-free paper
This book has been published with the help of a grant
from rhe Social Science Federation of Canada, using
funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada.
Canadian CataloguiDa iD Publication Data
Courtney. Richard
Drama and inreUigence
Indudes bibliographical references
ISBN o-nJS-0]66·)
1. Theater- Psychological aspects. 1. Theater•
Philosophy. 3· Intellect. 4· Drama in education. 1. Tide.
1990 791'.02. C90-o90178-o
This book was set in Saban Join by Caractt:ra inc.,
Montreal.
Preface
Drama is Being "as if." It is a rocal process, internal and external, that
occurs when we transform our creative imagination into acts, when we
create mental fictions and express them in spontaneous play, creative
drama, improvisation, role play, and theatre. like life itsel~ it is an
aperienc;, we live rhrough. In life we deal with actual thoughts and acts;
in drama we deal with imagined thoughts and dramatic acts. The differ•
ence is that drama involves "as if'' thinking and "as ir' action. But life
and drama are so alike that contemporary scholars can talk of the drama
of life, or life as drama.
This book starts with Being "as if." It looks at dramatic action as an
intellectual and cognitive activity, and in a way that uses a variety of
analytic tools that cross disciplines to focus on dramatic activity per se.
It is therefore a work in Developmental Drama, which I first defined in
1968 as the academic study (as opposed to the direct experience) of
dramatic activity, that is, the study of the transformations created by
dramatic