Modern Drama Studies: An Annual Bibliography

Modem Drama Studies: An Annual Bibliography CHARLES A. CARPENTER With this installment, the annual bibliography of modem drama studies enters its second decade. I shall exploit the occasion to make a renewed plea for assistance. In the past, such pleas have drawn little response: three volunteers, only one continuing (Professor J. Norman Wilkinson of Maine). The total job of checking a thousand periodicals and trackiilg down hundreds of books each year would surely be done more effectively by a team of specialists than by a single "six-million-card man," as a secretary once dubbed me. I shall be taking a one-year break from the labor; meanwhile, I would appreciate hearing from anyone willing to help. Specifically, I need a Harvard connection or two to handle Scandinavian and Eastern European material, and Romance-language scholars willing to search for relevant books published in Europe, South America, and Canada. The tenth anniversary of the checklist also seems an appropriate time for a revised statement of policies. As always, the main objective is to record current scholarship, criticism, and commentary that may prove valuable to students of dramatic literature and, to a lesser extent, of theatre history. The bibliography embraces all the expected areas and topics of modem world drama, including influential theatre figures other than perfqrmers. Playwrights qualify if they lived past 1899; the single exception is Georg Buchner, who died when Ibsen was still a boy but who is generally considered the first genuine modem dramatist. The entries are deliberately selective; my rule of thumb is the term "substantial." Thus journalistic accounts of theatrical events, memoirs of directors and actors, and other more popular or ephemeral items (often accessible through the Reader's Guide or Humanities Index) are not listed; neither are most studies of the nondramatic works of playwrights: Brecht's poems, Beckett's novels, Camus's essays. Other exclusions omit play scripts, book reviews, reprints, editions and anthologies (unless their editorial material is noteworthy), unpublished doctoral theses, and anything in a non-Roman An Annual Bibliography 175 alphabet. Somehow theserestrictions still leave room forabout 1soo entries per year - thirty-five to forty percent of which do not appear in the MLA International Bibliography. A new element of policy derives from the fact that I have finished my International Bibliography of Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism, 1966-1980. In the past, only recently published items werelisted in the annual checklists. From now on, references supplementing the basic volume, 1966 to date, will appear. This change means, among other things, that scholars who discover lacunae in the basic volume may have them listed in ModernDrama. The volume will bepublished inthenear future by University of Toronto Press. The checklist is divided as follows: A General (including reference works) B American C British and Irish D Commonwealth and Asian E Hispanic (including Portuguese) F French G Italian H Germanic (including Austrian, Swiss, and Dutch) J Scandinavian K Eastern European (Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Balkan, and Baltic) Section A is restricted to material that would not fit in the better defined categories. Again I am indebted to the library staffs of Harvard, Cornell, and SUNY-Binghamton. Abbreviations used in the checklist, besides those for the journals listed below, include Lon, NY, Bos and Dub for the cities, Amer, Eng, Lit, Lang, Bibl, Assn, and Lib for the obvious, and UP to indicate "University Press" or any university's press. Further abbreviations- most of them self-evident- are Bul for Bulletin, J for Journal, Q for Quarterly, and Rev for Review. JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS ABnG Amsterdamer Beitriige zur CCEI Cahiers du Centre Neueren Germanistik d'Etudes ArQ Arizona Quarterly Anglo-Irlandaises AUW Acta Universitatis CD Comparative Drama Wratislaviensis CJitS Canadian Journal of BALF Black American Italian Studies Literature Forum CIS Claude! Studies CanD Canadian Drama CRB Cahiers Renaud-Barrault 176 A: General CfR Canadian Theatre Review RRHA Revue Roumaine D W Dialog (Warsaw) d'Histoire de !'Art: EON Eugene O'Neill Newsletter Serie Theatre ... GBJ Georg Bi.ichner Jahrbuch SCIA Studii §i Cercetari de GLR Garcia Lorca Review Istoria Artei: Seria IA Ibsenforbundet: Arbok Teatru ... JCL Journal of Commonwealth SHAW SHAW: The Annual of Literature Bernard Shaw Studies JDSG Jahrbuch der Deutschen SID Slovenske...