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Contributors ENOCH llRATER is professor of English and Theater at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is the author most recently of The Drama ill 'he Text: Beckett's Late Fiction and the forthcoming collection The Critical Gamut: Notes for a PostBecketrian Stage. GERALD DUGAN has taught drama at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Pomona College. and American University. His essays have appeared in Theatre Three and Theatre Week. His plays have been staged by Rendezvous Productions of New York and Los Angeles, and San Diego Repertory. GAIL FINNEY is professor of German and Comparative Literature at the Universily of California at Davis. She is the author of two books, The COl/melfeit ldyfl: The Garden Ideal and Social Reality ii' NiJleteenth ~Celltu,.y Fiction (1984) and Womell ill Modem Drama: Freud, Feminism. and European Theater at the Turn of the Cemury (J989: 1991), and the editor of Look Who's Laughing: Studies in Gender and Comedy (1993). She has also published numerous articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-cenlury German and comparative literature. WILLIAM lENT is a doctoral student in English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently working on a dissertation on contemporary Irish drama. BRJAN JOHNSTON is associate professor of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University, Piusburgh . He is the author of Tile Ibsen Cycle, (revised edition), Penn State Press, 1992; Text alld Supertext ill Ibseli's Drama, Penn State Press, 1989; and To the Third Empire: Ibsen's Early Drama, University of Minnesota Press, 1980. LURANA D. O'MALLEY is an assistant professor of theatre at the University of Hawaii, with a research specialization in the field of Russian drama and theatre. LAWRENCE DANSON ASHLEY TAGGART is originally from Belfast in Northern Ireland and completed a D. Phil from York University in 1992 (full title: "Evolutionary Dramas: Tragic Responses to the Aftermath of Darwinism"). He has taught in York and London and has recently written a thirty-minute film based upon a production of Maeterlinck's The Sightless (using blind actors) which will be screened at the National Film Theatre, London. DAPHNE TURNER is senior lecturer in English at Kingston University, England, and specializes in twentieth-century poetry and drama. She has published articles on W.H. Auden, most recently in Platonism and the English Imagination (Cambridge University Press 1994). She is currently working on what she hopes will be a book-length study of Alan Bennett. . JENNIFER A. WAGNER is an assistant professor of English at the University of Memphis. She has published articles on Romantic and Victorian poetry in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Victorian Poetry, Southwest Review and Western Humanities Review. Her current research interests include nineteenth-century lilerary parody, and contemporary British drama. ...

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