Contributors

Contributors KARL BECKSON, Professor of English at Brooklyn College, CUNY, is the author or editor of nine books on various figures of the 1890s, including Oscar Wilde: The Critical Heritage (1970) and London in the 1890s: A Cultural History (1993). Early in 1994, AMS Press (New York) will publish his Oscar Wilde Encyclopedia. He is currently coediting (with Bobby Fong) Wilde's Poems and Poems in Prose for the Oxford English Texts Edition of Thl Complete Works ofOscar Wi/de. JOSEPH BRISTOW is a lecturer in English at the University of York, England. He is the editor of "The Importance of Being Earnest" and Related Writings in the Routledge English Texts series (1992), and Sexual Sameness: Textual Differences in Lesbian and Gay Writing (Routledge, 1992). He has also coedited (with AngelaR. Wilson) Activating Theory: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Politics (Lawrence and Wishart, 1993). He is currently completing two book-length projects, Effeminate England and Victorian Poems, Victorian Sexualities. RICHARD ALLEN CAVE is Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at Royal Holloway in the University of London. His publications include New British Drama in Pelformance on the London Stage: 1970-1985 (1988); John Webster's "The White Devil" and "The Duchess ofMalfi": Text and Pelformance (1988); Ben Jonson (1991) and many essays on theatre, dance-drama, stage design, Anglo-Irish literature, and Yeats. To the Theatre in Focus series, of which he is general editor, he has contributed Terence Gray and the Cambridge Festival Theatre and Charles Ricketts' Stage Designs. Professor Cave is currently editing Wilde's plays for Penguin Classics. LAWRENCE DANSON is Professor of English at Princeton University. He has written about Renaissance drama (Tragic Alphabet: Shakespeare's Drama of Language; The Harmonies of "The Merchant of Venice") and about the fin de siecle (Max Beerbohm and the Act ofWriting). Recent articles include "Oscar Wilde, W.H., and the Unspoken Modem Drama, 37 (1994) 238 Contributors 239 Name of Love" (ELH 58, 1991) and "'The Catastrophe is a Nuptial': The Space of Masculine Desire in Othello, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale" (Shakespeare Survey 46, 1993). Professor Danson is currently editing Intentions and "The Portrait of Mr. W.H." for the Oxford English Texts edition of The Complete Works ofOscar Wilde. RICHARD DELLAMORA, who lives in Toronto and teaches at Trent University, recently completed a year as Visiting Fellow in the Department of English at Princeton University . He is the author of Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism (University of North Carolina Press, 1990) and Apocalyptic Overtures: Sexual Politics and the Sense of an Ending (Rutgers UP, 1994). Professor Dellamora is currently writing a book about the obsession with male purity in writing by men during the Victorian period. JOSEPH DONOHUE, Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, is the author of Dramatic Character in the English Romantic Age (Princeton, 1970) and Theatre in the Age of Kean (Blackwell's, 1975). He is editor of Nineteenth Century Theatre, a semi-annual journal of theatre studies, and general editor of The London Stage 18001900 : A Documentary Record and Calendar ofPelformances. Nearing completion is a monograph-length work, "Our Empire": The Empire Theatre, Leicester Square, and the 1894 Licensing Controversy - A Documenta1Y History and Commentary. Professor Donohue is currently preparing new texts ofSalome and The Importance ofBeing Earnest for the Oxford English Texts edition of The Complete Works ofOscar Wilde. REGENIA GAGNIER is Professor of English and Director of the Program in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. She teaches nineteenth-century British culture and society, social theory, and feminist theory. Her books include Idylls of the Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public (Stanford Up, 1986), Critical Essays on Oscar Wilde (O.K. Hall, 1991), and Subjectivities: A History ofSelf-Representation in Britain, 1832-1920 (Oxford UP, 1991). She is currently writing a book on economics and aesthetics, or the values of market society. RUSSELL JACKSON is a Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. His publications include editions of The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband for the New Mermaid series and Plays by Henry Arthur Jones for Cambridge UP. He is co-ordinating editor of Theatre Notebook, and (with Ian Small) a...