Contributors

Contributors JACK V. BARBERA is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Mississippi. His articles on contemporary poetry, theater, and film have appeared in the Journal ofModern Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, Explicator, and several other scholarly small journals. For the academic year 1980/8I , he is a co-recipient of an NEH grant to work on a critical biography of the poet Stevie Smith. LINDA BEN-ZVI is an Associate Professor ofEnglish at Colorado State University, where she teaches contemporary drama. She has also taught at Tel Aviv University. She has published articles on Beckett in PMLA and the Journal ofBeckett Studies, on Pinter in Modern Drama, and will have an article on Joyce in the Joyce centenary issue of Comparative Literature Studies. She is presently finishing a book on SamuelBeckettand the Philosophy of Language and compiling a bibliography on "Philosophy as an Art Form" for Style magazine. MAURICE CHARNEY is Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare and popular literary forms. Besides an abiding interest in Shakespeare, he has been writing on genres and literary forms related to drama. His most recent book is Sexual Fiction, in the Methuen New Accents series. In addition, he is working on a book on Joe Orton for the Macmillan Modem Dramatists series, as well as another book on Hamlet, called (tentatively) Hamlet as Comedy. SUSAN L. COCALIS, Assistant Professor of German at the University of Massachusetts/ Amherst, has written articles on Flellier, Kroetz, and Bauer, and is currently finishing a book on the modem German Volksstiick. TERENCE HAWKES is Professor in the Department ofEnglish Language and Literature at University College, Cardiff. He is the author of Linguistics and English Prosody (with E.L. Epstein); Shakespeare and the Reason; Metaphor; Shakespeare's Talking Animals: Language and Drallta in Society; and Structuralism and Semiotics. He has also edited Coleridge's Writings on Shakespeare and Twentieth Century Interpretations of Macbeth. 392 Book Reviews MICHAEL HAYS, who teaches at Columbia University in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, is currently preparing a book on the formal structures of the modem drama. His recent publications include essays on semiotics and theatre history. CLAYTON A. HUBBS is Associate Professor ofLiterature at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts. He has written extensively on the drama of Chekhov and is presently completing a book-length study of Chekhov and the contemporary theatre. JILL L. LEVENSON, Associate Professor of English at Trinity College, University of Toronto, is Editor of Modern Drama. She has published editorial and bibliographical research on·English Renaissance drama, and critical articles about Shakespeare's plays and their backgrounds as well as about contemporary drama. At present she is on a two-year leave from teaching, subsidized by the SSHRC and the NEH, to prepare the first volume of a source supplement for the Harbage/Schoenbaum Annals of English Drama: 975-1700. NAOMI CONN LIEBLER is Assistant Professor ofEnglish at Montclair State College, New Jersey, where she teaches courses on Shakespeare, medieval and Renaissance English drama, and modem British and American drama. She has published an article on cross-cultural perspectives in the Council on National Literatures Quarterly World Report (1978); her article on Julius Caesar will appear in the 1981 issue ofShakespeare Studies. She has also served as dramaturge for the Jean Cocteau Repertory Company's production of Massinger's The Roman Actor, and is currentiy an Assistant Project Director for the Folger Shakespeare Library Exhibit, "Shakespeare Summerfest," at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Presently beginning a sabbatical year, she is at work on a book about ritual in Shakespearean tragedy, as well as articles on modem British drama and the plays of Philip Massinger. DAVID NICHOLSON is a doctoral student in Theatre at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, currently writing a dissertation on the fairy tale in modem drama. He has been teaching English and drama for fifteen years at the Riverdale Country School in the Bronx, and has published several items on the teaching of drama. His piece on Gozzi's Turandot was published last year in Theatre Journal. MATTHEW N. PROSER isProfessorofEnglishat the UniversityofConnecticut. He...