Modern Drama Studies: An Annual Bibliography

Modern Drama Studies: An Annual Bibliography CHARLES A. CARPENTER • THE PRESENT ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY follows the basic principles and limitations described in the first installment of March 1974. The main objective is to record current scholarship, criticism, and commentary that may prove valuable to students of modern dramatic literature. The bibliography embraces all the expected areas and topics of modern world drama, including playwrights who lived past 1900 (plus Buchner and Becque) and influential men and women of the theatre other than performers. This year's list covers 1975 and further 1974 items, plus a sprinkling of missed 1973 items. The MLA Inlernalional Bibliography for 1973 supplements the previous list even more, especially with regard to articles in nonliterary periodicals and material in non-Roman alphabets. The MLA volumes for 1974 should come out this summer. The bibliography is divided into eleven parts: A. General (incl. reference works) B. American C. British (incl. Irish) D. Commonwealth (other than Asian - i.e. Canadian, African, and Australasian) E. Spanish (inci. Portuguese and Latin American) F. French 177 178 CHARLES A. CARPENTER G. Italian H. Germanic (incl. Austrian, Swiss, and Dutch) J. K. Eastern European (Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, and Balkan) L. Asian Section A is restricted to material that would not fit in the better-defined categories . This year I was fortunate enough to enlist the help of Professor Albert A. Kipa of Muhlenberg College, who tracked down and transliterated several Eastern European items. Professor J. Norman Wilkinson of Maine again submitted the bulk of Chinese drama/theatre titles, and several other scholars sent helpful notes. My appeal for aid still remains open, however. Abbreviations used in the checklist, besides those for the journals listed below, include the first three letters of months and seasons (Jan, Sum, etc.), Lon and NY and Bos for London and New York and Boston, Amer and Eng and Lit and Bib! and Assn for the obvious, and UP to indicate a university press. (In other contexts , "University" is shortened to Univ and "Press" to Pr.) Further abbreviations - most of them self-evident - are Bul for Bulletin, J for Journal, Mag for Magazine, Q for Quarterly, Rev for Review, and St for Studies. JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS BNYPL Bulletin ofthe New York JCL Joumal ofCommonwealth Public Library Literature BW Black World JSS Joumal ofSpanish Studies: CD Comparative Drama Twentieth Century ChL Chinese Literature LATR Latin American Theatre ReCLQ Colby Library Quarterly view CIS Claude! Studies LetR Lettres Romanes ConL Contemporary Literature LuK Literatur und Kritik CTR Canadian Theatre Review LWU Literatur in Wissenschaft DR Drama Review und Unterricht Eire EirelIreland MD Modem Drama ETJ Educational Theatre Jouma! MLN MLN: Modem Language ETL Explicacion de Textos Lite- Notes rarios MLR Modem Language Review GL&L German Life & Letters NALF Negro American Literature HisF Hispanofila Forum IUR Irish University Review NS Die Neueren Sprachen MODERN DRAMA STUDIES 179 Pia Players SOR Sean O'Casey Review PolP Polish Perspectives TA Theatre Annual PrA Primer Acto ThQ Theatre Quarterly REH Revista de Estudios Hispdni- WB Weimarer Beitriige cos WW Wirkendes Wort RLT Russian Literature Triquar- Y/T Yale/Theatre terly ZAA ZeitschriJt fur Anglistik und RLV Revue des Langues Vivantes Amerikanistik RomN Romance Notes ZRL Zagadnienia Rodzaj6w ShR Shaw Review Literackich A. GENERAL ,I Apple, Max. "Marxism and Comedy." Rice Univ St, 61 (Win '75), I-II 2 Ash, Lee. Subject Collections: A Guide to Special Book Collections and Subject Emphases as Reported by University, College, Public and Special Libraries in the United States and Canada, 4th ed. NY: Bowker, '74. 3 Aveline, Claude. "L'Anti-theatre ou I'excommunication de Theramene." MD, 18 (Sep '75), 281-89 (Engl. summary, 321-24) 4 "Bibliographie." Revue d'Histoire du Theatre, 26 (Oct-Dec '74), 285-516 5 Binder, Wolfgang. Europiiisches Drama und amerikanische Kritik ... 1890-1914. Niirnberg: Carl, '74. 490p. (Scandinavian, Germanic, and Russian drama) 6 Borchardt, Donald A. "The Audience as Jury." Pia, 50 (Fall-Win '74-'75), 10-15 (courtroom plays) 7 Brashear, William R. "The Power of Negative Thinking: An Essay on Tragedy." South Atlantic Q, 74 (Win '75), 21-34 (stresses Miller and Hochhuth ) 8 Braun, Kazimierz. Nowy teatr na swiecie. Warsaw: Wyd. Art. i Filmowe, '75. 250p. (popular history) 9 Brustein, Robert...