Modern Drama Studies: An Annual Bibliography

Modern Drama Studies: An Annual Bibliography CHARLESA.CARPENTER • THE PRESENT ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY follows the basic principles and limitations described in the first installment of March 1974. The main objective is to record current scholarship, criticism, and commentary that may prove valuable to students of modern dramatic literature. The bibliography embraces all the expected areas and topics of modern world drama, including playwrights who lived past 1900 (plus Buchner and Becque) and influential men and women of the theatre other than performers. This year's list covers not only 1974 and further 1973 publications, but also a selection of missed 1972 items. The M LA International Bibliography for 1972 supplements the previous list even more, especially with regard to articles in non-literary periodicals and material in non-Roman alphabets. The MLA volumes for 1973 should come out early this summer. The eight-part arrangement of last year's trial-balloon bibliography proved somewhat awkward (why Italian with French? why Scandinavian with Germanic? above all, why Canadian with American?) The following less controversial scheme has been substituted: A. General (incl. reference works) B. American C. British (incl. I r i s h ) . D. Commonwealth (other than Asian - i.e. Canadian, African, and Australasian ) E. Spanish (incl. Portuguese and Latin American) F. French G. Italian H. Germanic (incl. Austrian, Swiss, and Dutch) J. Scandinavian K. Eastern European (Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, and Balkan) L. Asian 61 62 CHARLESA.CARPENTER Section A is restricted to material that would not fit in the better-defined categories. My work on the checklist during a term in England was greatly facilitated by the enviable resources and efficiency of the University of London Library. For many of the theatre items sprinkled throughout, I am indebted to John Cavanagh of Motley Books Ltd. (Mottisfont Abbey, Romsey, Hampshire S05 OLP), performing arts bookseller and bibliographer extraordinaire. Once again, Professor J. Norman Wilkinson of Maine turned up several elusive Chinese drama items. Several scholars also sent me notes on a title or two, though cooperation of this sort was discouragingly rare. I hereby make a direct appeal for aid, especially on categories J-L. Abbreviations used in the checklist, besides those for the journals listed below, include the first three letters of months and seasons (Jan, Sum, etc.), Lon and NY for London and New York, Amer and Eng and Lit and Bibl for the obvious, and UP to indicate a university press. (In other contexts, "University" is shortened to Univ and "Press" to Pr.) Further abbreviations - most of them selfevident - are Bul for Bulletin, J for Journal, Mag for Magazine, Qfor Quarterly, Rev for Review, and St for Studies. JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS ALA L'Afrique Litteraire et GRM Germanisch-Romanische Artistique Monatsschri[t ALS A ustralian Literary Studies IUR Irish University Review BA Books Abroad JCL Journal ofCommonwealth BSUF Ball State University Forum Literature BW Black World JML Journal ofModern CB Current Biography Literature CD Comparative Drama LATR Latin American Theatre ChL Chinese Literature Review CIS Claudel Studies LuK Literatur und Kritik CSP Canadian Slavonic Papers MAL Modern Austrian Literature CTR Canadian Theatre Review MD Modern Drama D&T Drama & Theatre MQ Meanjin Quarterly DR Drama Review (formerly N&Q Notes and Queries TDR) NFS Nottingham French Studies DVLG Deutsche NGC New German Critique Vierteljahrsschrift fur NGS New German Studies Literaturwissenschaft NRDM Nouvelle Revue des Deux und Geistesgeschichte Mondes EtG Etudes Germaniques NS Die Neueren Sprachen ETJ Educational Theatre Obi Obliques: Litterature, Journal Theatre FR French Review Pla Players GL&L German Life & Letters PolP Polish Perspectives GQ German Quarterly PrA Primer Acto MODERN DRAMA STUDIES 63 QJS Quarterly Journal ofSpeech Century REH Revista de Estudios StF Studi Francesi Hispimicos StG Studi Germanici RomN Romance Notes SuF Sinn und Form RSH Revue des Sciences TA Theatre Annual Humaines ThQ Theatre Quarterly RUO Revue de I'Universite UnG Universitas (German d'Ottowa edition) SAB South Atlantic Bulletin WB Weimarer Beitriige ShR Shaw Review WCR West Coast Review SRA Southern Review YIT Yale/ Theatre (Adelaide) ZDP Zeitschriftfur Deutsche STC Studies in the Twentieth Philologie A. GENERAL 1 "Annual Review Number: Double Issue Covering 1971 and 1972." JML, 3 (Feb '74), 351-886 (book reviews, lists of articles and theses, etc.; limited to English-language material) 2 Arrabal, Fernando...