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) Contributors JOHN H. ASTINGTON. Editor of Modern Drama, is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama. University of Toronto. His research interests include English Renaissance drama and theatre history, on which he has published in numerous journals. He is editor of the forthcoming collection of essays, The Development of Shakespeare's Theater (AMS Press, New York), He has written on contemporary Canadian drama, including material for The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre (1988), LlNDA BEN-ZVI is Professor of English at Colorado State University. She is the author of a book on Samuel Beckett, has just edited a collection of essays entitled Samuel Beckett's Portraits o/Women: The Function ofGender in the Novels and Plays, and is completing a study of the works ofSusan Glaspell. She has also written many articles on contemporary American and British drama, and on philosophy of language. NORMAND BERLIN, Professor ofEnglish at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, has published four books - The Base String: The Underworld in Elizabethan Drama, Thomas Sackville, The Secret Cause: A Discussion ofTragedy, and Eugene O'NeiIJand has written many articles ranging from medieval poetry to modem film. His present projects are a Casebook on O'Neill for Macmillan of London and a book entitled O'Neill's Shakespeare. CHRISTINE DYMKOWSKI is an American educated both in the United States and in England; she is currently a Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of London (Royal Holloway and Bedford New College). She is the author of Harley Granville Barker: A Preface to Modern Shakespeare (Washington, 1986). ERNEST G. GRIFFIN is a Professor Emeritus of York University. He has edited a collection of essays on O'Neill and has published articles on O'Neill and other modem writers in 140 Contributors various journals. During its period ofpublication he was an editorof Modernist Studies: Literature andCulture 1920- 1940, and is the author ofa book on the Britishcritic, John Middleton Murry. CHARLES LOCK is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto. He completed hisD.Phil. at Oxford University. and for two years taught at the University of Karlstad, Sweden. He is currently writing a biography of John Cowper Powys, and he has published articles on Powys, Hardy, Hopkins, and other modem writers. ANN MASSA studied and has taught at various universities in the United States and England; she currently teaches in the School of English at the University of Leeds. Her main publications include Vachel Lindsay, Fieldworker for the American Dream (1970); The American Novel Since 1945 (1975); and American Literature in Comext, 1900-30 (1982), which includes an essay on The Great God Brown. Her book Love Is: Some American Definilions, a collection of essays which takes issue with the Fiedler school, is forthcoming from Macmillan. She iscurrently studying the changing image of England and the English in the work of Henry James. LAURIN R . PORTER is Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she teaches drama and modem American literature. She has published articles on Sylvia Plath, Paul ClaudeJ, and Eugene O'Neill, and is currently finishing a book on the function of time, memory, and ritual in O'NeiH's late plays. JOHN HENRY RALEIGH is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author ofmany books and articles on modem and nineteenth-century literature, among them The Plays ofEugene O'Neill (1965). ROBERT READY, a Professor of English at Drew University, is the author of Hazlitt at Table (1981) and of various essays on English romantic writers. HUBERT ZAPF is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Paderbom, West Germany. He has published a book on Saul Bellow and articles on Mansfield, D.H. Lawrence, J.D. Salinger, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Shaffer, and others in journals such as Modern Drama, College Literalure, D.H. Lawrence Review. American Transcendental Quarterly, Orbis Litterarum. His book on the theory and structure of modem English drama will appear in 1988, and he is currently working on contemporary British and American theatre and on new perspectives in literary theory. ...

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