Contributors

Contributors • WILLIAM A. ARMSTRONG, Professor of English at Westfield College, University of London, has published widely in English Renaissance drama and in modern drama. He is presently completing an edition of Book I of Bacon's The Advancement of Learning, a monograph on the Elizabethan private theatres, and his share of the last three volumes of the edition of Pepys' Diary issued by G. Bell and Sons. RONALD G. ROLLINS, Professor of English at Ohio Wesleyan University, has published articles on Shaw, Synge, and O'Casey in the James Joyce Quarterly, Irish University Review, Shaw Review, and Modern Drama. The University of Alabama Press will publish his Verisimilitude and Vision in Selected Plays of Sean O'Casey later this year. NICHOLAS GRENE recently completed his doctoral dissertation, a critical study of Synge's comedies, at the University of Cambridge. He has published The Synge Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College Dublin (1971), a catalogue published for the Synge centenary, and he presently teaches at the University of Liverpool. BERNARD F. DUKORE: Chairman of the Department of Drama and Theatre at the University of Hawaii, Professor Dukore is author of articles and books on various modern dramatists. These include Bernard Shaw, Director (1971), Bernard Shaw, Playwright (1973), and Dramatic Theory and Criticism: Greeks to Grotowski (1974). JERRY L. CURTIS: Assistant Professor of French at Rice University, Professor Curtis has contributed articles to Studies in Short Fiction, Rice University Studies, Man and World, Orbis Litterarum, Romance Notes, and Studies in the Novel. He is the author of volume 118 of Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century; his book Camus' Absurd Hero will be published later this year. MARJORIE SMELSTOR, S.C., is a Teaching Assistant at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. WALTER J. MESERVE AND RUTH I. MESERVE: A husband and wife team whose writings on drama and theatre in modern China include Modern Drama from Communist China (1970) and essays in Comparative Drama, Children's Theatre Review, Journal of Popular Culture, and Journal of Asian and African Studies. Professor W. J. Meserve is in the Department of Theatre and Drama at Indiana University and has published widely on American drama. CHARLES A. CARPENTER is an Associate Professor of English, author of Bernard Shaw and the Art of Destroying Ideals and of many articles on Shaw, Pinter, and others, and is the bibliographer for Modern Drama. ...