Contributors

Contributors MARV1N CARLSON is Sidney E. Cohn Professor of Theatre at Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His most recent books are Places of Peliormallce and Theatre Semiotics: Signs of Life. DONALD P. COSTELLO is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Serpent's Eye: Shaw and the Cinema (1966) and Fetlil1i's Road ( 1983). as well as articles on 1.0. Salinger, Henry James, G.B. Shaw, Imamu Baraka. Graham Greene, and filmmakers Stanley Kubrick, Norman lewison, Sidney Lumet, and Federico Fellini, and on Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill in Modern Drama. CARA GARGANO is Chairperson of the Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. She is both a director/choreographer and translator, most recently completing a translation of Aorent Dancourt's Les Bourgeoises d la mode (Ladies 0/Quality) for a staged reading in New York City. HOON-SUNG HWANG has completed a Ph,D. dissertation, tilled "One Mirror Is 'Not Enough' : A Study of Reflexivity in Samuel Beckett's Drama" at the University of California in Davis. He has published articles on Shakespeare and on Korean mask dance from a semiotic perspective. MARYBETH INVERSO is currently Assistant Professor of English at Bentley College in WaJtham, MA, She is the author of The Gothic Impulse ill COlltemporary Drama (1990). This essay was originally delivered in an abbreviated fonn at the Modem Language Convention in 1991. The author wishes to thank Bentley College for a research grant to develop the paper and also to express appreciation to Vivian Patraka for providing a very helpful suggestion. NEALE REINITZ is Professor Emeritus of English at Colorado College, where he taught courses in Pope, Johnson, Keats, and others for thirty-eight years. Edmund Wilson's ventures as a playwright, poet, and novelist are among his current interests. Contributors LAURA SEVERIN is Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University, where she teaches courses on modern poetry and women's studies. She has completed articles on modernist figures such as Eliot and Lawrence, but is currently writing a book on Stevie Smith's subversive poetics. EVERT SPRINCHORN is the author of Strilldberg as Dramatist, translator of Selected Plays of Strindberg. and coeditor of Wagner on Music and Drama, and has written on Joyce, Ibsen, and the Elizabethan stage. ASPASIA VELISSARIOU is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Athens, Greece. She has published articles on many aspects of drama (particularly on Beckett and Ibsen) and is the author of Discourses ofPower and Truth in Wycherley's Drama (199 1). ...