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Contributors John A. Alford (Michigan State University) has written extensively on such medieval figures as Chaucer, Langland, and Rolle. His books include (ed.) A Companion to Piers Plowman (University of California Press), Piers Plowman: A Glossary of Legal Diction (Brewer), Literature and Law in the Middle Ages: A Bibliography ofScholarship (Garland), and (co-editor) Literature and Religion in the LaterMiddle Ages (MRTS). David Bevington (University of Chicago) is the author of From ''Mankind" to Marlowe, Tudor Drama and Politics, and Action Is Eloquence: Shakespeare's Language of Gesture (all by Harvard University Press). He has also edited Medieval Drama for Houghton Mifflin (the standard anthology) and the Complete Works of Shakespeare (Bantam and HarperCollins), as well as The Macro Plays and numerous individual plays for Penguin, Oxford, Cambridge, and the Revels series. T. P. Dolan (University College, Dublin) has directed and produced medieval plays both in this country and abroad. He revised T. P. Dunning's Piers Plowman: An Interpretation of the A Text for Oxford University Press. He is now completing an edition of Richard Fitzralph's Latin sermons, an edition begun by Arnold Williams. John R. Elliott, Jr. (Syracuse University) is the author of Playing God: Medieval Mysteries on the Modern Stage (University of Toronto Press) as well as numerous articles on medieval and Renaissance drama. He has also directed productions of early English plays both in North America and in England. 255 256 From Page to Performance John B. Friedman (University of Illinois) has published The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought (Harvard), Orpheus in the Middle Ages (Harvard) ,john de Foxton's Liber Cosmographiae (1408): An Edition and Codicological Study (Brill), and Northern English Books, Owners and Makers in the Late Middle Ages (Syracuse University). He has just completed An Annotated and Discursive Bibliography of Medieval Iconography for Garland Publishers. Arnold Williams directed his Ph.D. dissertation. Alexandra Johnston (University of Toronto) is the founder and present director of the Records of Early English Drama (REED), published by the University of Toronto Press. She has co-edited the Records ofEarly English Drama: York (2 vols.), and published numerous articles on medieval drama, especially on the York cycle. She has also directed, or acted in, several productions of medieval plays. William G. Marx (Michigan State University) has directed six productions of medieval plays, including Mankind, the Second Shepherds' Play, the Wakefield Last judgment, and the Chester Noah's Flood. His production of the Second Shepherds' Play was videotaped, with an introduction by Arnold Williams, for commercial distribution. His essay here is part of a book in progress on modern production of medieval drama. Lister M. Matheson (Michigan State University) is the general editor of a collection of scientific treatises in Middle English, Popular and Practical Science ofMedieval England (Colleagues Press) and is a former associate editor of the Middle English Dictionary. He has published many articles on such subjects as the medieval romance, historiography , William Caxton, and manuscripts. His graduate courses in medieval drama have often culminated in public performances. Philip C. McGuire (Michigan State University) is the author of Speechless Dialect: Shakespeare's open Silences (University of California Press), and Shakespeare: ThejacobeanPlays (Macmillan and St. Martin's Press). He is also co-editor of Shakespeare: The Theatrical Dimension (AMS Press) and serves on the Advisory Board of the Shakespeare Education and Shakespeare Interactive Archive projects at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. David Mills (University of Liverpool) is co-editor of the standard edition of the Chester Mystery Cycle (EETS), and editor of the same cycle in a modernized spelling version (Colleagues Press). He is also coauthor of The Chester Mystery Cycle: Essays and Documents (University of [3.134.85.87] Project MUSE (2024-04-17 17:49 GMT) Contributors 257 North Carolina Press), and 'The Drama of Religious Ceremonial" in the Revels History ofDrama in the England Language. He is currently coediting the Cheshire records for the Records of Early English Drama. Randal Robinson (Michigan State University) is the author of Unlocking Shakespeare's Language: Help for the Teacher and Student (National Council of Teachers of English), as well as "Hamlet" in the 1950s: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland). He has appeared in university and professional theatrical productions, and with Peter Holben Wehr he has developed a computer program on Shakespeare's language. Martin Stevens (City University of New York) is the author of Four Middle English Mystery Cycles (Princeton) and many articles on a range of medieval literary subjects. He co-edited The Towneley Plays for...