Contributors

Contributors • WALTER J. MESERVE, Professor of Theatre and Drama at Indiana University, edits this special Bicentennial issue of Modern Drama. His history entitled The Drama of the A merican People, volume one: An Emerging Entertainment, The Beginnings to 1828 will appear in 1977. RICHARD MOODY, Professor of Drama and Theatre at Indiana University, has edited Dramas from the American Theatre, 1762-1909 and written a biography of Lillian Hellman among other works on American drama and theatre. The present essay is part of a book-length study of Edward Harrigan. THOMAS M. GRANT is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hartford where he teaches courses in Renaissance and Modern Drama. He is the author of The Comedies ofGeorge Chapman: A study in Development, 1972. DR. JAMES A. ROBINSON is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland. PROFESSOR EGIL TbRNQVIST, who teaches at the University of Amsterdam (Holland), is the author of A Drama of Souls: Studies in O'Neill's Super-naturalistic Technique, and numerous other studies in the area of modern drama. LUCINA P. GABBARD teaches in the English Department as an Associate Professor at Eastern Illinois University. She is the author of The Dream Structure of Pinter's Plays: A Psychoanalytic Approach, 1976. ROBERT A. MARTIN is a Professor of Humanities at the University of Michigan; he will publish a collection of Arthur Miller's essays in 1977. RICHARD P. MEYER is the Director of the Professional Theatre Program at the University of Michigan. MARY ANN CORRIGAN is a Lecturer in English at Northern Virginia Community College and a contributor to a forthcoming anthology of criticism on Williams. She has also recently written articles for Renascence and Educational Theatre Journal. DOROTHY LEE, an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities of the University of Michigan - Dearborn, has taught courses in English, European, and Afro-American literature. Her current interest focuses upon the connection between mythical archetypes and Afro-American literature. CHARLES R. BACHMAN, an Associate Professor of English at SUNY - Buffalo, specializes in dramatic literature and has published essays on Hauptmann and Albee. He is currently writing a monograph on Sam Shepard. GERALD WEALES, Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, is a reviewer, critic , and historian of the drama in America. Currently, he writes for Commonweal; among his works on American drama are American Drama Since World War 11 and The Jumping -OffPlace, American Drama in the 1960's. ...