Contributors

Contributors • RUBY COHN: Professor of Comparative Drama at the University of California at Davis, Professor Cohn is author of numerous books, including Samuel Beckett, the Comic Gamut, A Casebook on "Waiting for Godot", Currents in Contemporary Drama, Edward Albee, and Dialogue in American Drama. Her new book, Back to Beckett, is now in press. ROSETTE LAMONT: Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York, Dr. Lamont is a noted scholar in the areas of Symbolist Poetry and Contemporary European and American Theatre. She has published widely in such journals as The French Review, Yale French Studies, PMLA, and Theatre Arts. STANLEY WEINTRAUB: Research Professor and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, Professor Weintraub is also editor of The Shaw Review, and has published widely in the field of Shavian studies. His most recent books are Journey to Heartbreak: the Crucible Years of Bernard Shaw, and Bernard Shaw's Nondramatic Literary Criticism. WINIFRED L. FRAZER: Professor of English at the University of Florida, and author of The Theme of Loneliness in Modern American Drama, and the monograph Love as Death in "The Iceman Cometh". WILLIAM BABULA: Assistant Professor of English at the University of Miami, Professor Babula's articles have appeared in The Modern Language Review, Modern Drama, and Tennessee Studies in Literature. ALICE BLITCH: Dr. Blitch is a Professor of English Literature and former chairman of the Department of English at the Western College in Oxford, Ohio. Professor Blitch's main field of specialization is Elizabethan literature. Her article on Spenser's Faerie Queene is forthcoming in the January issue of Studies in English Literature. JOHN FUEGI: Departments of Comparative Literature and Theatre, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Professor Fuegi is the author of The Essential Brecht and is Managing Editor of Brecht Beutel Brecht Today; he has contributed to the Shakespeare Quarterly and various other scholarly journals. ERIC SALMON: Eric Salmon is at present Chairman of the Drama Department in the University of Saskatchewan Regina Campus. A British actor, playwright, and theater director, his directorial credits include Samson Agonistes at the Edinburgh International Festival, plays in London and New York. He is presently at work on a book about John Whiting. BRIAN PARKER: Professor of English, Trinity College, University of Toronto, Dr. Parker is the former Director of Toronto's Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama, and a noted editor of Jacobean Drama. He is currently preparing an edition of Ben Jonson's Volpone. ...