Contributors

Contributors DOUGLAS ABEL is a professional actor, director and playwright and Chairman of the Department of Visual and Perfonning Arts at Keyano College, Alberta. His publications include "'Alexander the Little': the Question of Stature in Edmund Kean's Othello," "A Stage History of a 'Tragicall History': Directing Dr. Faustus," and "Edmund Kean's Masonic Career." He has written and performed To Ride in Triumph, aone·man play about Christopher Marlowe, and directed Nicholas Nickleby at the Stephenville Festival, Newfoundland. His play The Cattle Pen recently had its world premiere at the Alleyway Theatre, Buffalo, New York. GRETA ANDERSON is working on a Ph.D. in English literature at Rutgers University. JOEL H. KAPLAN is an Associate Professor of English and Theatre at the University of British Columbia. He is preparing a new edition of Oscar Wilde's society plays for the Oxford English Texts Edition o/the Complete Works o/Oscar Wilde, and is co-author (with Sheila Stowell) of Drama, Fashion, Society [890- [9[4, to be published by Cambridge University Press. MARGOT KELLEY is an Assistant ProfessorofEnglish at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania. She has recently completed a book-length project entitled "Chaos and Contemporary Women's Fiction: The Place of Science in the American Literary Canon," GREGORY W. LANIER, Assistant Professor of English at the University of West Florida, has published essays on Shakespeare and the semiotics of the Bible. He is currently working on a book-length study of Sam Shepard's plays as well as writing interactive courseware that is being used in computerized composition instruction. LAURIN PORTER is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she teaches drama and twentieth century American literature. She is the author of The Banished Prince: Time, Memory, and Ritual in the Late Plays o/Eugene O'Neill (1988). Her articles and reviews have appeared in Modern Drama, The Eugene O'Neill Review, Claude! Studies, and Studies in American Drama: 1945-Present. MARC Sll..VERSTEIN is an Assistant Professor in the Depanment of English at Auburn University, Alabama. He has just completed a manuscript on Pinter entitled Harold Pinter and the Language 0/Power. He is also working on a project exploring Helene Cixous's theorization of the feminist spectator. ROBERT SMITH has directed Translations at St. Paul's College, University of Manitoba. where he lectures in the Department of English. His major research interest is in the interdisciplinary study of theatre and religion. ...