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Contributors M.C. BRADBROOK is Professor Emerita of English in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Girton College. Her latest publication is Collected Papers, 3 vols. (London, Harvester Press; New Jersey, Barnes and Noble). JARKA M. BURIAN has taught in the Departments of English and of Theatre at SUNYAlbany since 1955. During those years, he has also acted and directed. His publications have concentrated on modem Czech theatre, the most recent example being Svoboda: Wagner (Wesleyan), a study of Josef Svoboda's scenography for the operas of Richard Wagner. E.J. CZERWINSKI is Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at SUNY - Stony Brook. He is Editor of Slavic and East European Arts and is on the Editorial Boards of Comparative Drama, World Literature Today, Gradiva, and Twentieth Century Literature. He is currently on an IREX Grant in Yugoslavia completing entries for the World Encyclopedia of Theatre Ensembles and translations for an anthology of Yugoslav short stories, to be published in the spring in Slavic and East European Arts. ROBERT FINDLAY is Professor of Theatre at the University of Kansas, where he teaches courses in theatre history and criticism in addition to directing experimental productions . He has written frequently on the work ofGrotowski and the Laboratorium for such publications as Theatre Journal, Odra, Theatre Perspectives, and Kansas Quarterly. He is presently completing a book on the work of the Laboratorium, research which is supported by grants from the Kosciuszko Foundation, the Center for Research, Inc., and the General Research Fund of the University of Kansas. DANIEL GEROULD teaches Theatre and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of CUNY. He has published three volumes oftranslations ofWitkiewicz, as well as a critical study of his works, Witkacy. His other publications include Twentieth-Century Polish Contributors Avant-Garde Drama, and the collections American Melodrama and EighteenthCentury French Comedies, Gallant and Libertine. JANUSZ GLOWACKI is a playwright, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter who has published ten books of short stories and novels, as well as four plays, and twenty radio plays which have been widely performed throughout Poland and Europe. Ten days after he leftPoland to attend The Royal Court's premiere ofhis play Cinders, martial law was declared: he still lives in the United States. Mr. Gtowacki has lectured and taught courses about play-writing and play-reading, and about American and Polish culture, at Bennington College in Vermont, the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Pennsylvania State University, and CUNY. During October and November 1983, he was Ida Bean Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa. MARKETA GOETZ-STANKIEWICZ is Head of the Department of Germanic Studies and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of The Silenced Theatre: Czech Playwrights without a Stage (University of Toronto Press, 1979), and has written on German, Czech, and Polish literature. She has edited an anthology of contemporary Czech drama in English translation which will appear in 1984. She has also published translations of plays and poetry from the Czech and German. WLADIMIR KRYSINSKI, Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Literature at the University of Montreal, has published articles on semiotics of theatre, fiction, and poetry. His recent publications include Carre/ours de signes. Essais sur Ie roman moderne (Mouton, 1981); an essay in Sartre et la mise en signe (Esprit Createur, 1982); and articles in Etudes Fram;aises, Modern Drama, and Poetics Today. ANTONI LIBERA, who lives in Warsaw, is a literary critic and a translator of Beckett's works into Polish. He has edited two special issues of the monthly review Literatura na swiecie devoted to Beckett (1975, 1981), and a volume of Beckett's late prose, Pisma prozq (1982). He has written a number of essays on modern Polish literature, among them studies of Gombrowicz, Mrozek, and Herbert. He has also staged some of Beckett's plays in the theatre, mainly in the Warsaw Drama School, where he was Visiting Professor. DARKO SUVIN, a Yugoslav by origin, is Professor ofEnglish and Comparative Literature at McGill University, with a special interest in drama. He has published extensively on modem drama, in particular on Brecht, and on literary and dramaturgic theory. He has just completed a...

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