Contributors Notes

Contributors Notes BERNARD BECKERMAN is Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia University; President of the American Society for Theatre Research; and author of Dynamics of Drama and Shakespeare al the Globe. CHARLES A. CARPENTER has been producing the Annual Bibliography for Modern Drama since 1974. In addition to numerous articles on modern drama, he has written Bernard Shaw & The Art oj Destroying Ideals: The Early Plays, and he has compiled the recently published GolOentree Bibliography of Modern British Drama. RUBY COHN, Professor of Comparative Drama at the University of California. Davis. is Associate Editor for Modern Drama and Educational Theatre Journal. Her book-length studies include: Samuel Beckell: The Comic Gamut; Currents in Contemporary Drama; Dialogue in American Drama: Back to Beckett: and Modern Shakespeare Offshoots. ALEXANDER FISCHLER is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he teaches courses in French modern drama and the short story, as well as in the literary genres. His numerous articles on Tolstoy, Balzac, Mallarme, Colette, Camus and others have appeared in Studies in Short Fiction, Symposium. Modern Language Review, Modern Language Quarterly, Modern Drama. and other scholarly Journals. He is presently engaged in a study of Gide. BETIINA L. KNAPP is Professor of French Literature and Comparative Literature at both the Graduate Center of CUNY and Hunter College. She has written books on Antonin Artaud: Man of Vision; Jean Racine: Mythos and Renewal in Modern Theatre; Jean Genet: An Ana!ytical Study; Jean Cocteau; Maurice Maeterlinck: An Analytical Study; Ofj Stage Voices (twenty-eight interviews ); Dream and Image; Celine: Man of Hate; and Fernand Crommelynck. PATRI ~lA ~ER1VALE. i.s Professor ?f Engli~h and Comparative Literature at the UnIversIty of Bntlsh ColumbIa. She IS author of Pan the Goat-God: His Myth in Modern Times. and of articles on Wallace Stevens, Borges & Nabokov. Classical Artifacts & Gothic Tales, and (forthcoming) on Yeats & Rilke. James & Gombrowicz, Comparative Canadian Literature, and the Elegiac Romance. ...