Contributors

Contributors BETTIE ANNE DOEBLER teaches in an interdisciplinary humanities program at Arizona State University that em­ phasizes the arts and the history of culture. Professor Doebler has published several articles on the ars moriendi and on Elizabethan and Jacobean literature. At present she is finishing a monograph entitled “Rooted Sorrow: Despair in Some Plays of Shakespeare.” STEPHEN L. TRAINOR is chairman of the English Depart­ ment at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, near Terre Haute, Indiana. Formerly editor of the Notre DameEnglish Journal, Professor Trainor recently published an article on The London Merchant in Studies in English Literature; he is cur­ rently working on a book on the tragedies of George Lillo. ROY BATTENHOUSE is the author ofShakespearean Tragedy: Its Art and Its Christian Premises (Indiana, 1969) and of many essays on Shakespeare. He is a past chairman of the Shakespeare section and of the Drama section of MLA and presently chairs its Religious Approaches to Literature divi­ sion. Several of his book reviews have appeared in Compar­ ative Drama. Professor Battenhouse has been Professor of English at Indiana University since 1956. MICHAEL HINDEN teaches twentieth-century literature and modem drama at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In addition to a half-dozen other articles on O’Neill, Professor Hinden has also published on Sophocles, Ibsen, Yeats, Stop­ pard, tragic theory, and other topics. His book of satire, Byrd Thou Never Wert, was published this summer by Ten Speed Press. JAMES A. ROBINSON is an assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland and has published mainly on O’Neill, including articles in Modern Drama, The Eugene O’Neill Newsletter, and Modern Language Studies. He has just completed a book-length manuscript on O’Neill and Oriental religion. This academic year he is a Fulbright Junior Lecturer at the University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain. FLORENCE FALK is currently working on a book titled Alliance and Misalliance in Shakespeare’s Plays. Her articles have appeared in such journals as The Drama Review, Anima, the Educational Theatre Journal, and the Perform­ ing Arts Journal. She is also an actress and a director. ...