Contributors

Contributors BENJAMIN K. BENNETT is Professor of German at the University of Virginia. His book, Modern Drama and German Classicism, won the James Russell Lowell Prize of the MLA in 1980; and he has just completed a manuscript on Goethe's Faust. He writes mainly on German literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, modem German literature, and European drama of all periods. LINDA BEN-ZVI is Associate Professor of English at Colorado State University, where she teaches contemporary drama. She has also taught at Tel Aviv University. She has published articles on Beckett in PMLA and the Journal ofBeckett Studies, on Pinter and O'Neill in Modern Drama, and on Joyce in Modern Drama and the Joyce centenary issue of Comparative Literature Studies. Recently, she has been writing a book on "Samuel Beckett and the Philosophy of Language" and compiling a bibliography on "Philosophy as an Art Form" for Style magazine. ENOCH BRATER is widely published in the field of modem and contemporary drama. He is Associate Professor and Graduate Chairman in the Department of English at the University of Michigan, where he also serves as Director of the University's Summer Program in London. The essay printed here is from his forthcoming book Beyond Minimalism: Late Style in Beckett's Theatre. He is also the editor of Beckett at 80/ Beckett in Context, to be published in 1986. DENNIS CARROLL teaches drama and film at the University ofHawaii at Manoa, where he is Professor of Drama and Theatre. His essays have appeared in Modern Drama, Performing Arts Journal, Theatre Journal, and The Drama Review, several coauthored with Elsa Carroll. He edited and wrote an introduction to the anthology Kumu Kahua Plays (Honolulu: Univ. Press of Hawaii, 1983). His study "Australian Contemporary Drama 1909-1982: A Critical Introduction" will be published next year by Peter Lang Publishing (New York and Bern). Contributors BERNARD F. DUKORE is Professor of Drama and Theatre at the University ofHawaii at Manoa. His books include BernardShaw, Director, Bernard Shaw, Playwright; Where Laughter Stops,' Pinter's Tragicomedy; Money andPolitics in Ibsen, Shaw, andBrecht; Harold Pinter. He has written the chapter on Peter Barnes in Modern English Drama, as well as numerous articles in the field of modem drama. MARTIN ESSLIN worked for the BBC in various capacities from 1940 to 1977. From 1960 to 1963 he was Assistant Head, and from 1963 to 1977 Head ofthe BBC's Radio Drama department. Since 1977, he has been Professor of Drama at Stanford University in California, where he spends two quarters of each year, while retaining his domicile in England. He has written books on Brecht, the Theatre of the Absurd, Pinter, Artaud, as well as collections of essays on Brecht, Beckett, the media, and a book on the Age of Television. C.l. GIANAKAR1S is Professor of English at Western Michigan University. He is cofounder and coeditor of Comparative Drama; and author of Plutarch (Twayne) and Foundations ofDrama (Houghton Mifflin), in addition to many articles on drama from Elizabethan to modem. On modem drama, his work about Stoppard and Shaffer is most familiar, and he is currently writing a book on Shaffer. CHRISTOPHER C. HUDGINS serves as Chairperson of the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he teaches courses in dramatic literature and film studies. He has published several articles on Pinter, Stanley Kubrick, and television drama. Currently, he is working on a book about Pinter's film scripts. SHOSHANA KNAPP, who earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Stanford University, is Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where she teaches courses in American literature, science fiction, literary theory, and literature and film. She has published articles on Napoleon, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, George Sand, George Eliot, Nabokov;Chekhov, and Ursula K. LeGuin - as well as two articles on The French Lieutenant's Woman in addition to the one that appears here. ROSETTE C. LAMONT is Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of French at the CUNY Graduate School and at Queens College of c;UNY. She is on the editorial board of Performing Arts Journal and serves as a regular reviewer for Stages. During...