PLAY, DRAMA & THOUGHT: THE INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND TO DRAMATIC EDUCATION Richard Courtney Toronto, Simon & Pierre, 1989. 266pp, paper, $29.95 ISBN 0-88924-213-5. CIP Post-secondary Reviewed by Pat Bolger. Volume 18 Number 3 1990 May Author of more than thirty books (mostly on arts education and educational drama), Courtney has lectured on drama in England and since 1967 in Canada, where he now supervises graduate studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Play, Drama & Thought provides a definitive analysis of the intellectual and theoretical background of drama in education - the philosophy of play and drama, the theories of the various schools of psychology, social and anthropological history, and the relation between drama and intuition, symbolism and human thought. The bibliography has almost 650 sources, and a typical page may have references to Einstein, Kant, Niels Bohr, Karl Popper, Henri Bergson and Heraclitus. Readers who lack a thorough grasp of the concepts and language of psychology and education will sink in a welter of terminology: for example, "For behaviourists, imitation is primary: where they do acknowledge identification, it is developmental and it is only a precipitate of conditioning." This will be a valuable resource in university libraries serving graduate students in education and psychology. Pat Bolger, Renfrew, Ont.