The Contributors

The Contributors WILLIAM ARMSTRONG: Professor of English Literature at the University of Hull and one of the Foreign Editors of Modern Drama. Chairman of the Standing Conference of English Drama Associations. Author of The Elizabethan Private Theatres: Facts and Problems (1958) and editor of Experimental Drama (lg03), Essays and Studies (1964), Classic Irish Drama (1964), and Elizabethan History Plays (1965). EGIL P. T6RNQVIST: Instructor in Comparative Literature, University of Uppsala, Sweden; has published articles on Strindberg and O'Neill and is preparing a book on O'Neill. Mr. Tornqvist is currently at Yale on an ACLS grant. SEAMUS DE BURCA: Has acted in, produced, and written plays. His plays include The Howards, Limpid River, The Boys and Girls Are Gone, Thomas Davis. Other books by Mr. de Burca are the novel Limpid River and The Soldiers' Song, the story of Peadar Kearney, author of the Irish National Anthem. KATHERINE WORTH: Dr. Worth is a member of the English Department, Royal Holloway College, University of London. She has written articles on Yeats, O'Casey, Eliot, and Beckett. PAUL J. HURLEY: Assistant Professor of English, Southern Illinois University. His articles have a;ppeared in Theatre Annual, Studies in Short Fiction, College English, and other journalS. RONALD G. ROLLINS: Professor Rollins is a member of the English Department at Marshall University. He has published articles on O'Casey and O'Neill in several scholarly journals. JOHN FLETCHER: On the French staff of Durham University. He is the author of The Novels ot Samuel Beckett (London, 1964), and he has published several articles in French and in English on Beckett in British, French, and American learned journals. He is now working on a Bibliography ot Samuel Beckett (in collaboration with Raymond Federman) to be published by the University of California Press, and on a book on leading contemporary French novelists and dramatists. JOHN A. BYARS: Professor Byars has studied and lectured at Trinity College, Dublin. He is now a member of the English Department at Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina. ROBERT HOGAN: Professor Hogan is a member of the Department of English, University of California, Davis. He directed the world premiere of Rice's play Love Among the Ruins in May, 1963, at the University of Rochester. His recent writing includes Arthur Miller in the University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers series, and The Independence ot Elmer Rice, to be published in the fall in the Crosscurrents series of the Southern Illinois University Press. ...