Richard Courtney Biography (1927-)

Born June 4, 1927, in Newmarket, England; son of Arthur John (a teacher) andCelia Annie Courtney; married Rosemary Gale (a writer and editor); children:Anne, John. Addresses: OFFICE--Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor Street W., Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V6, Canada.

Nationality
English, Canadian
Gender
Male
Birth Details
June 4, 1927
Newmarket, England

Famous Works

  • Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE APPEARANCES
  • Various music hall appearances in Northern England, 1951-54. Also appeared with the Arts Theatre, Leeds, the English Theatre Guild, and performed in other repertory and amateur productions, all in England.
  • Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE WORK
  • Director, Arts Theatre and Proscenium Players, both in Leeds.
  • Credits; PRINCIPAL TELEVISION APPEARANCES
  • With the Northern Repertory Company, BBC, 1954-64.
  • Writings;POEMS
  • Wide Eyed Girl, Stockwell, 1948.
  • Writings;NONFICTION
  • (Editor) College Drama Space, Institute of Education, University of London, 1964.
  • Teaching Drama, Cassell, 1965.
  • The School Play, Cassell, 1966.
  • The Drama Studio, Pitman, 1967.
  • Play, Drama, and Thought: The Intellectual Background to Dramatic Education, Cassell, 1968, second edition, Drama Book Specialists, 1970, third edition, 1974.
  • Teaching and the Arts: Arts Education in Australia, With Specific Reference to Drama Education in Victoria, Melbourne State College, 1979.
  • (editor) The Face of the Future: The Report of the National Inquiry IntoArts and Education in Canada, Canadian Conference of the Arts, 1979.
  • The Dramatic Curriculum, Drama Book Specialists, 1980.
  • (with Paul Park) Learning in the Arts, Ministry of Education, Ontario, 1980.
  • Writings; (editor, with Gertrud Schattner) Drama in Therapy (two volumes
  • Volume I, Children, Volume II, Adults), Drama Book Specialists, 1981.
  • History of British Drama, Littlefield, Adams, 1982.
  • Re-Play: Studies of Human Drama in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Press, 1982.
  • Outline History of British Drama, Littlefield, 1982.
  • The Rarest Dream: "Play, Drama, and Thought" Revisited, 1984.
  • (with Dr; Booth, J; Emerson, and N; Kuzmich), Teacher Education in the Arts, 1986.
  • The Quest: Research and Inquiry in Arts Education, University Press of America, 1987.
  • Dictionary of Developmental Drama, C. C. Thomas, 1987.
  • Contributor: Education and the Arts, Australian National University, 1971; Drama in Education, Pitman, Volume I, 1973, Volume II, 1974, Volume III, 1975; Theatre for Young Audiences, Longman, 1978; Wholistic Dimensions in Healing, Doubleday, 1978; Fourth Yearbook on Research in Arts and Aesthetic Education, Central Midwest Regional Educational Laboratory, 1981.
  • Contributor of more than one hundred articles, stories, poems, and reviews to scholarly journals, popular magazines, and newspapers, including Gryphon, Players, Connecticut Review, Queen's Quarterly, and Orbit; editor of monograph series "Discussions in Developmental Drama," University of Calgary, 1971-74; contributing editor, Curriculum Inquiry, 1975-78.