Contributors

Contributors JANA O'KEEFE BAZZONI is Assistant Professor of Speech at Baruch College, City University of New York. She has published in Performing Arts Journal, PSA and in the Review of National Literarures. Dr. O'Keefe Bazzoni's research to date has been primarily in the area of Italian modernist drdma and theatre and has focused on such figures as the Futurists, i grotteschi. and Pirandello. KAY UNRUH DES ROCHES is Associate ProfessorofEnglishat the University ofWinnipeg where she teaches dramatic literature. She has published articles on modem drama and Norwegian literature; she has also directed numerous plays, among them her own translation of The Lady from the Sea. BERNARD F. DUKORE is University Distinguished Professor of Theatre Arts and Humanities at Virginia Tech. His books include Bernard Shaw, Director; Bernard Shaw, Playwright; The Collected Screenplays ofBernard Shaw; The Theatre ojPeter Barnes; Dramatic Theory and Criticism; Where Laughter Stops: Pinter's Tragicomedy; Harold Pinter; and American Dramatists 1918-1945. He has written numerous articles in the field of modem drama. BETTINA KNAPP is Professor ofRomance Languages at Hunter College and the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York. She is the author of many books and articles on French drama and theatre, most recemly of French Theatre 1918-1939, published by Macmillan in 1985. JOSEPH MAROHL received his Ph.D. from the University of Miami in 1983. He now resides in Augusta, Georgia, and teaches English at the University of South Carolina campus in Allendale, SC. DlDERIK ROLL-HANSEN is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oslo, and Contributors 449 h as published studies in nineteenth-century literature, including "The Academy" I 869-1879: Victorian Intellectuals in Revolt (1957), articles on drama. mainly A nglo-Irish and on Shaw, the book Storbritannia (1960), and essays on British civilisation. NICHOLAS RZHEVSKY teaches in the German and Slavic Department of the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He has written widely on Russian literature and theatre, including the book Russian Literature andIdeology (1983). His English version of Yuri Liubimov's and Yurl Kariakin's play adapted from Crime and punishment premiered at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith during September 1983. H ENRY I. SCHVEY is Associate Professor of English and American Literature at Lcidcn University in the Netherlands. In addition to his work as artistic director of the Leiden English Speaking Theatre, he has published numerous articles on contemporary drama. Author of the interdisciplinary study Oskar Kokoscltka: The Painter as Playwright (Wayne State University Press, 1982), Professor Schvcy is currently completing a critical history of contemporary American Drama for Twayne publications. JENNY S. SPENCER teaches modem and contemporary drama at the University of Massachusetts al Amherst. She has published articles on Edward Bond for the Stratford~Upon.Avon Studies volume Contemporary English Drama (London, 1981) and Themes in Drama, Vol. 8 (Cambridge, 1986). She is currently researching contemporary British Socialist drama and finishing a book on Edward Bond. MARY ANN FRESE WITT is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. North Carolina State University. She is author of Existential Prisons (1985), which is concerned with fonns of captivity in postwar drama and fiction, of the textbook The Humanities: Cultural Roots andContinuities, and of articles on many modem writers. In 1986 she was the recipient of a Fulbright Resear~h Fellowship. and worked, chiefly in Rome, on the question of narration and space m Pirandello, Sartre, and Genet. ...