Contributors

Contributors ELMER M. DLISTEIN is Professor of English at Brown University, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, poetry, and comedy. He is coauthor (with E.A. Bloom and C.H. Philbrick) of The Order ofPoetry (1961) and The Variety ofPoetry (1964); author of Comedy in Action (1964); and editor of the English Renaissance play The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe by George Peele, as wen as of The Drama of the Renaissance: Essays for Leicester Bradner (both ]970). He believes, steadfastly and grouchily. that any plays written since the time of Hrotsvitha should be considered modem drama. BARBARA B. BROWN, Professor of English at Marshall University, has an M.A. from Marshall and a Ph.D. from Ohio University. [n 1977- 1978, she was a Fulbright Exchange Professor at the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology in England. She is currently preparing a book of essays dealing with the life and works of John Buchan, first Lord Tweedsmuir. HELENA FORSAS-SCOTT received her first degree from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and her Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. She has taughlin the Department of Scandinavian Languages at the University of Gothenburg and in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Aberdeen. She is currently working as a part-time tutor for the Workers' Educational Association in Aberdeen. She has written about Wesker's Roots, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, and Ibsen's Hedda Gabler in the series York Notes, and her study of the Swedish novelist Elin Wagner is due to appear in the Swedish publication Sam/aren. She has contributed a number of review articles to the magazine Swedish Books, and together with Linda Schenck, a translator. she is preparing an English-language anthology of texts by Swedish women writers. JOHAN R. HENDRICKX. earned his Ph.D. at the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto. He has translated or directed both Shakespearean and modem drama not only in North America but in Europe. He received his Licentiate with a thesis on Joe Orton, and has published an essay on Brendan Behan. 126 Contributors EDWARD HIRSCH teaches in the English Department at Wayne State University. He has published articles on Irish literature in Em, Genre, The Journal of the Folklore Institute, and Irish Renaissance Annual, and in 198 I he received a fellowship from the American Council ofLearned Societies for abook on Irish literature and folklore. He has contributed as well to COlllemporary Literature, The New York Times Book Review, American Poetry Review, Sewanee Review, Southern Review, and elsewhere. His book of poems, For the Sleepwalkers, appeared as part of the Knopf Poetry Series in 1981. MALCOLM PAGE is Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University and currently President of the Association for Canadian Theatre History. He has published widely on British, Canadian and Caribbean drama, and on radio and television drama. ROSANNE G. POTTER is an Associate Professorof English at Iowa State University. She is at work on a computer-assisted analysis of first acts and has published articles on period style, character definition, and reader responses to characters in first acts. THOMAS J . TAYLOR is Assistant Professor of Performance Theory and Dramatic Criticism as well as dramaturge at "the University of Alabama, where he specializes in comparative and contemporary American drama. His previous work on the postscriptive text and dramatic pedagogy has appeared in College English. He is also general editor of The Index ofBeckellian Motifs. KATHARINE WORTH is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies in the University of London and Head of the Department of Drama and Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway CoUege. She is the author of The Irish Drama ofEuropefrom Yeats to Beckett, Beckett the Shape Changer, Revolutions in Modern English Drama, and many articles on modem drama. She is Chainnan of the Consortium for Drama and Media in Higher Education which collects and advises on audio-visual materials in the teaching ofdrama. ...