Contributors

Contributors ERELLA BROWN is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature and Hebrew at The Pennsylvania State University. She is currently working on a book assessing the impact of the Biblical prohibition against image-making on the belated development of secular Jewish literature. CHARLES A. CARPENTER, Professor of English at Binghamton University, contributed the annual bibliography to Modern Drama from 1974 to 1992. His international bibliography, Modern Drama Scholarship alld Criticism: /966-1980, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 1986; a volume covering 1981-1990 is in progress. He has published a book on Shaw, a Goldentree Bibliography of Modern British Drama, and many articles, and is working on a study of the drama of the nuclear age. JOSEPH M. DUDLEY is a postmodemist critic interested in explorations of space, both in the avant-garde theatre and in other fantastic literatures. He is currently at work on articles exploring the "realistic" plays of Sam Shepard. JAMES ASHER. Associate Professor of Theater of Wabash College, is the author of the forthcoming book, The Theater o/Yesterday and Tomorrow: Commedia del/'arte on the Modern Stage (Edwin Mellen Press, [992). He has published many articles and reviews, and he was recently named a 1991 Public Humanities Fellow by the Indiana Humanities Council and a 1992-93 Six-Month Fellow at the Newberry Library. In 1990 he served as curator for an exhibition, "The History of Clowning from Commedia dell'arte to the Present," at the Actors Theatre of Louisville "Classics in Context" Festival. RICHARD BRUCE KIRKLEY has published a number of articles on the relationships between theatre and television. His video production of Samuel Beckett's ... but the 626 Contributors clouds ... was recently broadcast by the esc and Access Network in Canada. He currently teaches in the Department of English, University of British Columbia. LAUREN D. McKINNEY is a doctoral candidate in English at Temple University, where her fields of study are drama and nineteenth century British literature. She is beginning work on her dissertation, which will explore the migration of tragedy from drama to the novel in the nineteenth century, focussing on the later novels of Thomas Hardy. PATRICIA RIGG teaches Modem Drama at Acadia University. Wolfville, Nova Scotia. She has published on the subject of romantic irony in the poetry of Robert Browning and is currently interested in the dramatic long poem of the nineteenth century. CAROL ROSEN is the author of Plays of Impasse (Princeton) and of the forthcoming Sam Shepard: A Poetic Rodeo (Macmillan). She has written for a variety of publications . including TheatreWeek, The Village Voice, The Drama Review, Peifol'ming Arts Journal, Comparative Drama, Salmagundi, Canadian Theatre Review, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Modern Drama. She teaches dramatic theory and criticism at SUNY at Stony Brook. CHRISTOPHER B. WEIMER is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Peninsular Spanish Literature at the Pennsylvania State University, where he is a 1991-92 recipient of an Edwin Erie Sparks Fellowship in the Humanities. ROBERT WILCHER is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Binningham. He is author of Andrew Marvell and Understanding Arnold Wesker and editor of Andrew Marvell: Selected Poel1y and Prose. He has published articles in various periodicals on seventeenth-century poetry, Shakespeare, and modem drama and has contributed a chapter on the radio plays to Beckett's Later Fiction and Drama: Texts for Company. ...