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Bond, Shaffer, Stoppard, Storey: An International Checklist of Commentary CHARLES A. CARPENTER After the regenerating spark ofJohn Osborne's LookBack in Angerin 1956, the ensuing decade brought four English dramatists into world prominence: Osborne himself, Arnold Wesker, John Arden, and Harold Pinter. When their fortunes waned somewhat in the late sixties, a new cluster ofdramatists - John Russell Taylor dubbed them "the second wave" - coopted a large share of the limelight. Again, four major figures emerged: Edward Bond, Peter Shaffer, Tom Stoppard, and David Storey. The amount ofcritical attention given to this group, especially Bond and Stoppard, has escalated in recent years to the extent that more than half of the significant studies in print have been published since 1976. Of the eighty-plus that exist on Stoppard, for example, nearly fifty were issued in this period; of sixty-five on Bond, thirty-eight. A commendable bibliography that embraces these dramatists, Kimball King's Twenty Modern British Playwrights (New York: Garland, 1977), purports to cover international criticism through 1976, but it is already so out-of-date that it includes only a quarter of the noteworthy studies available by mid-198I. A new bibliography is obviously needed. The following checklist is an offshoot of a project of much larger scope, an international bibliography of modem drama studies, 1966 to date. As such, it derives from personally examining over 1500 periodicals and thousands of books in all Roman-alphabet languages, as well as bibliographies that relate to the field. The list is restricted to substantial commentary, including that of the playwrights themselves (listed first under each), and thus omits most reviews of performances, career summaries, and other ephemerae. It also omits unpublished dissertations. The list will be regularly updated, in effect, by my annual bibliographies in ensuing June issues of Modern Drama. To shorten journal titles I have used the following abbreviations: J: Journal, Mag: Magazine, Q: Quarterly, Rev: Review, TIr. Theatre. Bond, Shaffer, Stoppard, Storey: A Checklist Edward Bond 'Author's preface.' Lear. NY: Hill & Wang, '72, v-xiv 'Bingo and The Bundle.' Th Papers 2 ii ('78) 1-27 ('73 interview with Howard Davies & Michael Ferrand) 547 'Bingo: introduction.' Bingo & The Sea. NY:Hill &Wang, '7S. ix-xviii;also note on The Sea, 122-24 'Bond on his plays.' In Malcolm Hay & Philip Roberts. Edward Bond; a companion to the plays. Lon: TQ Pubns., '78,43-75 (seventeen statements from unpublished talks, letters, & theatre programs) 'A discussion with Edward Bond.' Gambit 17 ('70) 5-38 'Drama and the dialectics of violence.' Th Q 5 ('72) 4- 14 (interview) 'Edward Bond: an interview with Giles Gordon.' Transatlantic Rev 22 ('66) 7-15; repro in Joseph F. McCrindle, ed. Behind the scenes: theater andfilm interviews. NY: Holt, '71, 125-36 'Edward Bond: from rationalism to rhapsody.' Canadian Th Rev 23 ('79) 108- 13 (interview) 'Edward Bond in conversation.' Gambit 36 ('80) 35-45 (with David Roper); see also Bond's comment on The Worlds, 33-34 'Interview.. In Adolf Wimmer. Pessimislisches Theater [see Winuner below] 257-71 ('74 interview in English) 'Ein Interview mit Edward Bond.' Neue Rundschau 84 ('73) 571-76 (with Rainer Taeni); previous interview with Taeni in Akzente 16 ('69) 578-82 'Interview: the first cycle. ' Peiforming Arts J 1 ii ('76) 37-45 (with Glenn Loney) 'An interview with Edward Bond.' Kansas Q 12 iv ('80) 63- 72 (with Beverly Matherne & Salvatore Maiorana) 'Interviews with Edward Bond and Arnold Wesker.' Twentieth Century Literature 22 ('76) 411 - 22 'A note on dramatic method. ' The Bundle. or New Narrow Road to the Deep North. Lon: Eyre Methuen, '78, vii-xxi 'Odgovoriti nasilniC!kom dru~tvu: intervju sa Edvardom Bondom.' Scena 8 iii ('72) 76-85 (with Vesna mordeski) 'Poems, stories and essays for The Woman.' The Woman: Scenes a/War and Freedom. Lon: Eyre Methuen, '79. 111- 43 (iocl. 'Notes on acting The Woman,' 125-29, & 'Scenes o/War and Freedom: a short essay,' 133-36) 'Thoughts on contempnnary theatre.' New Th Mag 7 ii ('67) 6- 13 (discussion with critics on the topic, 'The theatre: ritual or romance?') ALBERTAZZI, SILVIA . '''out of the play": The Sea di Edward Bond e la "quintessenza del cecovismo.''' Spici/egio Moderno II ('79) 69-81 ARNOLD...

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