Contributors

Contributors RUBY COHN, Professor ofComparative Drama at the University ofCalifomia. Davis, is a distinguished member of the editorial boards of Modern Drama and Theatre Journal. She is the author of numerous texts on modem drama and has wriuen several books on the work of Samuel Beckett. Her book-length studies include: Samuel Beckett: The Comic Gamut; Currents in Contemporary Drama; Back 10 Beckett; Modern Shakespeare Offshoots; Just Play: Beckett's Theatre; New American Dramatists, 1960-1980. Her new book From Desire to Gadat is currently in press, and she is working on a book on contemporary English theatre. NICHOLAS EISNER is a graduate student in the Department of Germanic Languages at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. His Master's thesis was on the subject of Bernhard, and he is currently working on a dissertation on fantastic fiction. MARTIN ESSLIN worked for the BSe in various capacities from 1940 to '977. From 1960 to 1963 he was Assistant Head, and from 1963 to 1977 Head of the 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, Anaud, as well as collections ofessays on Brecht, the media, and a book on the Age of Television. His book The Field ofDrama, a critical account of the semiotics of theatre. is due to appear in 1987. AUDREY MCMULLAN is Lecturer in French at the Polytechnic of North London, and is working towards a Ph.D at Reading University. Her articles on Beckett have appeared or are forthcoming in ReVile d' Esthetique and the Journal ofBeckett Studies. SHEILA RABILLARD is a graduate ofQueen's and Princeton universities, and she currently reaches at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. Her research interests lie in the fields of modem drama, and modem and Victorian literature. Contributors 135 MARIA SHEVTSOVA is Professor of French and Head of the Department of Modem and Classical Languages at the University of Connecticut. She has published articles on theatre perfonnance in such journals as Theatre Quarterly and Theatre International and has written monographs for the series Theatre Papers. Her special area of research and teaching is the sociology of theater and cultural studies. BERT O. STATES is Professor in the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Irony and Drama, The Shape o/Paradox, and most recently Greal Reckonings in Little Rooms: On the Phenomenology a/Theater. His critical tssays have appeared in many journals.. MATTHEW H . WIKANDER, Assistant Professor ofEnglish and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, is author of The Play o/Truth and State: Historical Drama/rom Shakespeare to Brechl, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. His most recent articles have appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly and Comparative Drama, and he is currenlly at work on a study of court drama, 1600-1789, which will include discussion of the plays of Gustav ill. ANN WILSON received her Ph.D. from York University, Toronto, in 1986, and currently teaches at Cornell University as a Visiting Assistant Professor. She is working on a study of the inscription of the female body in plays by a number of contemporary women dramatists. WILLIAM 8. WORTHEN, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, is the author of The Idea o/the Actor: Drama and the Ethics 0/Performance (Princeton , 1984), and of articles on Shakespeare, acting, and modem drama. He is currently writing a book on theatricality and ideology in modem drama. ...