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The Contributors
- Modern Drama
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 2, Number 2, Summer 1959
- p. iii
- 10.1353/mdr.1959.0016
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The Contributors WALTER N. KING. Associate Professor of English at Montana State University, Professor King has published "John Lyly and Elizabethan Rhetoric" in Studies in Philology. He also has a forthcoming article on All's WeU That Ends WeU to be published in Modem Language Quarterly. ARTHUR H. NETHERCOT. Professor of English at Northwestern University, he is well known as the author of Men and Supermen: The Shavian Portrait Gallery. Professor Nethercot is presently working on a biography of Annie Besant. FREDERICK P. W. McDOWELL. An Associate Professor of English at Iowa State University, Professor McDowell teaches nineteenth century and contemporary British literature. He is the author of several articles on George Bernard Shaw. HARRY M. GEDULD. Mr. Geduld Secretary of the Shaw Society and postgraduate of Sheffield and London Universities, is at present preparing a Variorum edition of Back to Methuselah. During 1959-1960 he is visiting the .United States on a Fulbright award. ELLEN POLLOCK. Miss Ellen Pollock, President of the Shaw Society, is England 's most notable Shavian actress. In 1958, on the occasion of her election to the Presidency of the Shaw Society, The Sunday Times observed that Miss Pollock "has probably played more Shaw heroines in her time than any living actress. Since 1923 she has run the gamut from Eliza Doolittle to Mrs. Warren." TONI BLOCK. Miss Block is the author of Flowers for the Living and other plays which have received memorable professional productions in London. BARBARA SMOKER. Miss Smoker, Secretary of the Phonetic Alphabet Association and Assistant Secretary of the Shaw Society, is an authority on phonetics and on the problems of reforming the alphabet. JACK KALMAR. Mr. Kalmar has previously worked on the interrelationships of Shaw's prefaces and plays at Columbia University. For the past year he has taught English at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. WILLIAM IRVINE. Professor of English at Stanford, Mr. Irvine is the author of The Universe of G. B. S., Apes, Angels, and Victorians, and Walter Bagehot. "Shaw in America" was originally delivered before the Shaw Society in England. STANLEY WEINTRAUB. Editor of The Shaw Review and an Assistant Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University, Professor Weintraub is also the editor of An Unfinished Novel bll Bernard Shaw and a number of critical articles on modem British fiction and drama. ELDON C. HILL. Professor of English at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Professor Hill teaches American literature and modem drama. He is working on a book to be entitled Shaw and America. ARCHIBALD HENDERSON. Shaw's authorized biographer. For further information about his other activities, see Professor Hill's article in this issue. DAN H. LAURENCE. Mr. Laurence, a director and editor of the Readex Microprint Corporation, New York, and a vice-president' of the Shaw Society (London) is currently completing a comprehensive bibliography of Bernard Shaw for the Soho Bibliographies. BERTOLT BRECHT. The East German playwright whose plays and criticism have had a great influence on the contemporary theater. EARL FARLEY and MARVIN CARLSON. Mr. Farley is Assistant Head, Preparations Department, Watson Memorial Ubrary, the University of Kansas. Mr. Carlson is a graduate student at the University of Kansas. ...