Contributors

Contributors CHARLES A. CARPENTER, Associate Professor of English at SUNY - Binghamton , has contributed the Annual Bibliography to Modern Drama since 1974. He has published a book on Shaw, a Goldentree Bibliography of Modern British Drama, and many articles. His present project is an international bibliography of modern drama studies, 1966-1980. RUBY COHN, Professor of Comparative Drama at the University of California, Davis, is Associate Editor for Modern Drama and Educational Theatre Journal. Her book-length studies include: Samuel Beckett: The Comic Gamut; Currents in Contemporary Drama; Dialogue in American Drama; Back to Beckell; and Modern Shakespeare Offshoots. S.E . GONTARSKI is an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University, Lima Campus and has written reviews and essays on Samuel Beckett and D.H. Lawrence for Journal of Beckell Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Papers ofthe Bibliographical Society ofAmerica, and Perspectives. His essay on the film version of D.H. Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gipsy will appear shortly in The Classic English Novel and Film. He is editor of The Beckell Circle: Newsleller ofthe Samuel Beckell Society and the author ofBeckett's "Happy Days": AManuscriptStudy, published by The Ohio State University Library Publications. ANNE PAOLUCCI, University Research Professor at St. lohn's University, is Editor ofReview ofNational Literatures and Executive Director of the Council on National Literatures. A practicing playwright, she has written The Short Season, a three-act play performed in New York and abroad, and Minions ofthe Race, a one-act play which was staged three times and won the drama award of the Medieval and Renaissance Conference (Western Michigan University) in 1972. Among her recent books are: From Tension to Tonic: The Plays of Contributors 21 7 Edward Albee; Piralldello's Theater: The Recovery of the Modem Stage for Dramatic Art. J.L. STYAN is Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English Literature at Nonhwestern University. He was born in England and educated at Cambridge University. He came to America in 1965 as professor, then chairman, of English at the University of Michigan, and was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, 1974- 1977. He is Ihe author of The Elements of Drama (1960), The Dark Comedy (1962), The Dramatic Experience (1965), Shakespeare's Stagecraft (1967), Chekhov in Peiformance (1971), The Challenge ofthe Theatre (1972), Drama, Stage and Audience (1975) and The Shakespeare Revolution (1977). ...