Modern Drama: A Selective Bibliography of Works Published in English in 1962

MODERN DRAMA: A Selective Bibliography of Works Published in English in 1962 1962 marked the century since the births of Maeterlinck, Schnitzler, and Hauptmann, as well as the half-century since the death of Strindberg . As reflected in this bibliography, Strindberg's continuing influence was widely recognized. Strong interest in Hauptmann was clear enough, especially in several German publications. A quiet celebration was afforded Maeterlinck by one French journal, and an even quieter spirit marked Schnitzler's centenary. Towering over all modem playwrights, however, is Shaw, on or by whom a barely manageable number of books and articles appeared in 1962. 1962 is also remarkable for an increase in the number of collections of essays (usually but not universally reprints) on single figures of major importance in modem drama. In only one instance, Contemporary Theatre, have I listed the separate contents of such volumes , and then only out of the sense that the work is misleadingly entitled. (A more accurate title would have been Contemporary British Theatre.) To the bibliographer the advantage of the term, selective, is palpable enough as an excuse for oversights. When a particularly serious omission is brought to my attention, however, I hasten to correct my errors. One such omission in the 1960-61 bibliography concerns a valuable essay included in the Dolphin collection published late in 1961 by Doubleday: South: Modern Southern Literature in Its Cultural Setting (edited by Louis D. Rubin, Jr., and Robert D. Jacobs). Jacob H. Adler's "The Rose and the Fox: Notes on the Southern Drama" (pp. 349-375 in that volume) is a provocative and illuminating study with special emphasis on Lillian Hellman and Tennessee Williams. Another unintentional omission was Henry Popkin's useful report, "A Year of French Politics and Theatre," appearing in Massachusetts Review, II, 717-733. The following abbreviations have been used for publications apeparing most often in the entries: DS Drama. Suroey ETJ Educational Theatre Journal MD Modem Drama 204 1963 MLJ MLQ MLR P&P PMLf. QJS SHAY ShR TA TDR WT MODERN DRAMA BIBLIOGRAPHY Modem Language Journal Modem Language Quarterly Modern Language Review Plays and Players Publications of the Modern Language Association of America Quarterly Journal of Speech The Shavian Shaw Review Theatre Arts Tulane Drama Review World Theatre GENERAL 205 BARNET, SYLVAN, MORTON BERMAN, and WILLIAM BURTO, Aspects of the Drama: A Handbook, Boston: Little, Brown. BLOCK, HASKELL M., and ROBERT G. SHEDD (editors), Masters of Modern Drama, New York: Random House. BLUM, DANIEL (editor), Theatre World, I¢I-62, Philadelphia: Chilton Books. BOWERS, FAUBION, "Theatre of the Absurd: It Is Here to Stay," TA, XLVI (Nov.), 21+. (See Loney item below) CLAYES, STANLEY, and D. G. SPENCER (editors), Contemporary Drama: I] Plays, New York: Scribner'S. CORRIGAN, ROBERT W. (editor), The New Theatre of Europe, New York: Dell (Delta series). EBERHART, RICHARD, "Tragedy as Limitation: Comedy as Control and Resolution," TDR, VI, iv, 3-14. (Prefaces two of Eberhart's verse plays, Devils and Angels and The Mad Musician) EDWARDS, A. C., DAVID H. GREENE, and ANTHONY CAPUTI, "Suggestions Toward Some Views of Modem Drama," in Approaches to the S!udy of TwentiethCentury Literature (Proceedings of the Conference in the Study of TwentiethCentury Literature, Second Session), East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. EHRENSPERGER, HAROLD, Religious Drama: Ends and Means, Nashville: Abingdon Press. FELHEIM, MARVIN (editor), Comedy: Text, Sources, Criticism, New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World. GASCOIGNE, BAMBER, Twentieth Century Drama, London: Hutchinson. GILMAN, RICHARD, "The Necessity for Destructive Criticism," TA, XLVI (Sept.), 23-24+. (See subsequent issues for rejOinders) GREEN, GORDON C., "The Propaganda Play," MD, IV, 429-430. GROSSVOGEL, DAVID I., Four Playwrights and a Postscript: Brecht, Ionesco, Beckett, Genet, Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. GRUNWALD, HENRY ANATOLE, "The Disappearance of Don Juan," Horizon, IV, iii (Jan.), 56-65. HATHORN, RICHMOND Y., Tragedy, Myth, and Mystery, Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press. (Includes material on Murder in the Cathedral) HATLEN, THEODORE W., Orientation to the Theater, New York: Appleton-CenturyCrofts . HEWES, HENRY (editor), The Best Plays of I96I-I¢2, New York: Dodd, Mead. HIGHET, GILBERT, The Anatomy of Satire, Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. (In· cludes esssay on Ionesco) HOGAN, ROBERT, and SVEN ERIC MOLIN (editors), Drama: The Major Genres, New York: Dodd, Mead. HUNT...