Contributors

Contributors KA Y UNRUH DES ROCHES is Associate Professor ofEnglish at the University of Winnipeg where she teaches dramatic literature. She has published articles on modem drama and Norwegian literature; she has also directed numerous plays, among them her own translation of The Ladyfrom the Sea. Her article on this play appeared in the September issue of this volume of Modern Drama. ERROL DURBACH is Professor of Theatre and English at the University of British Columbia where he teaches courses in Theatre History, Comparative Drama and Modern Drama. His publications include Ibsen the Romantic, and a range of articles in Comparative Drama. Scandinavian Studies, Modern Drama, Essays in Theatre and Educational Theatre Journal. He is writing a book on "Erotic Tragedy" while pursuing his interest in Athol Fugard. CHR1STOPHER INNES, Co-Editor of Modern Drama, is Professor of English at York University and General Editor of both the "Directors in Perspective" series for Cambridge University Press and "The Canadian Playwright" series for Simon & Pierre. His recent publications include Holy Theatre: Ritual and the Avant Garde, and Edward Gordon Craig as well as PoliticJ and the Playwright: George Ryga. He is currently working on a comprehensive study of twentieth century British drama. JONATHAN KALB will receive his D.F.A. degree from the Yale School of Drama this year. He has taught in the Yale and Wesleyan University English Departments and is presently completing a book entitled Beckett i,zPerformance. His criticism has appeared in many journals including: American Theater, Theater Journal, Theater, and Shaw: The Annual ofBernard Shaw Studies. JEANNE KLEIN is Assistant Professor and Director of Child Dramaffheatre at the University of Kansas. In 1985 she was the Winifred Ward Scholar, awarded by the Contributors Children's Theatre Association of America. Previous articles on Canadian children's theatre have appeared in the Youth Theatre Journal. JAMES KNOWl SON is Professor of French at the University of Reading (Personal Chair) and Honorary Curator of the Beckett Archive. He is the author of Frescoes ofthe Skull: the later prose and drama afSamuel Beckett (1980) lwith John Pilling] and, currently, general editor of the forthcoming four-volume edition of Beckett's directorial notebooks, to be published by Faber & Faber and Grove Press. ANNEITE SHANDLER LEVITT teaches in the Department of Humanities and Communications , Drexel University. Co-editor of William Blake and t/ie Moderns, she has published articles on Vitrac, Blake, Milton, and Joyce Cary. Articles are forthcoming on Vitrac, Cocteau, Breton, Kristeva, and Djuna Bames. KIM MCKAY is a graduate student in the Department of English at Lehigh University, where she is working towards a Ph.D. and teaches composition and literature. Her article on The Blood Knot is a revision of a chapter from a longer study of the play. LESLIE THOMSON teaches English at Erindale College, University of Toronto. Her research areas are Renaissance and modem drama, with particular interest in staging. She has previously written on O'Casey in Modem Drama, and her articles on staging in Renaissance plays have been published or are forthcoming in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, and Shakespeare Survey. LEONARD WILCOX is a Senior Lecturer in the American Studies Programme at the UniverSity of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He is the author of critical articles on contemporary American literature and culture, and on theories of postmodernism . He is currently writing a book on Sam Shepard and contemporary critical theory. ...