Contributors

Contributors MICHAEL ANDERSON is Professor of Drama at the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He contributed the entries on British dramatists to Crowell's Handbook of Contemporary Drama (197I). and Anger andDetachment.his study ofOsborne, Pinter and Arden, was pUblished in 1976; he has contributed articles and reviews to New Theatre Magazine and Plays and Players. His other interests include the classical and Renaissance theatres, and he is currently working, with his wife, on a volume of documents relating to the Italian Renaissance theatre for the Cambridge University Press. JAMES BIERMAN has written about the theater for suchjoumals as The Yale Review, The Drama Review, The SoIJo News, and The Journal a/Popular Culture. An Associate Professor of Theater Arts, be is also a practicing playwright who has had three plays presented in New York City in the last three years. He is currently living in London. C.W.E. BIGSBY is Reader in the School ofEnglish and American Studies at the University of East Anglia. His publications include Confrontation and Commitment, Dada and Surrealism in the Critical Idiom Series, Superculture (ed.), Tom Stoppard, and Approach to Popular Culture (ed.). ENOCH BRATER, who teaches modem drama at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has published many articles on Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, Diirrenmatt, Arthur Miller, Ibsen, Noel Coward, Peter Nichols, [ollesco, Brecht, and Yeats. A contributor to The Nation and The New Republic, he has also written on contemporary art and film. CHARLES A. CARPENTER, Professor of English at SUNY - Binghamton, has contributed the Annual Bibliography to Modern Drama since 1974. He has published a book on Shaw, a Goldentree Bibliography of Modern British Drama, and many articles. His present project is an international bibliography of modem drama studies, 1966-1980. MAURICE CHARNEY is Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare and popular literary forms. He is author of Shakespeare's Roman Plays, Style in "Hamlet", and How to Read Shakespeare, and Contributors has edited Timon ofAthens and Julius Caesar. More recently. he has written books on themes from popular culture: Comedy High andLow and Sexual Fiction. 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. JOHN WILLIAM COOKE is an Assistant Professor of English and Drama at leMoyne College in Syracuse, New York. where he teaches dramatic literature and theory as well as acting and directing. AUSTIN E. QUIGLEY is Associate Professor of English and Associate Chainnan of the Department of English at the University of Virginia. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Modern Drama, and the autharof The Pinter Problem, published by Princeton University Press in 1975. At present he is at work on a book which ex.plores the changing relationship between onstage and offstage worlds in modem drama. PHILIP ROBERTS is Senior Lecturer in English Literature in the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Absalom and Achitophel & Other Poems (1973), The Diary ofSir David Hamilton. 1709-14 (1975), co-author of Edward Bond: A Companion to the Plays (1978), Bond: A Study ofHis Plays (1980), co-editor of Edward Bond: Theatre Poems & Songs (1978), and has written articles on Bond, Brenton, Congreve, Scott, Stoppard, and Swift. JUNE SCHLUETER, Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College, is the author of Metafictional Characters in Modern Drama (1979) and a forthcoming critical study of Peter Handke. With her husband, Paul Schlueter, she has edited The English Novel: Twentieth Century Criticism, Volume II (1981). In 1978-79, she held a Fulbright lectureship in Kassel, West Germany. JOHN RUSSELL TAYLOR has taught in the Cinema Department at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and has written film and art criticism for the London Times since 1962. He is the author of Anger and After, Cinema Eye. Cinema Ear, The Penguin Dictionary ofthe Theatre, The ArtNouveau Book in Britain, The Rise andFall of the Well-Made Play, The Second Wave, and Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock. THOMAS F. VAN LAAN is Professor ofEnglish at Rutgers University, teaching drama as literature on both the graduate and undergraduate levels. He is...