Modern Drama

Contributors STEVEN R. CENTOLA is Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has published articles on Arthur Miller, Jean-Paul Sartre and E.M. Forster in the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, Arizona Quarterly and The Journal ofAnalytical Psychology. His major project at this time is a full-length study of Miller's plays that attempts to show how Miller's work embodies or exemplifies a point of view that has much in common with Sartre's existentialism. UNA CHAUDHURI is Assistant ProfessorofEnglish and Dramatic Literature at New York University, where she teaches courses in British drama, Shakespeare, Drama in Performance and the History of Drama and Theatre. She has just completed a semiotic study ofJean Genet's drama, and is now working on a study ofthe role ofthe spectator in drama. RUBY COHN, Professor ofComparative Drama at the University ofCalifornia, Davis, is a distinguished member of the editorial boards of Modern Drama and Theatre Journal. She is the author of numerous texts on modern drama and has written several books on the work of Samuel Beckett. Her book-length studies include: Samuel Beckett: The Comic Gamut; Currents in Contemporary Drama; Dialogue in American Drama; Back to Beckett; Modern Shakespeare Offshoots; Just Play: Beckett's Theater; New American Dramatists, 1960-1980. MARY ANN K. DAVIS teaches English at St. John Fisher College. Her courses include Victorian Literature and The Comic Spirit in English Drama. She is presently engaged in a study of nineteenth-century hymns. HALINA FILIPOWICZ, who has a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literature from the University of Kansas, is Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin/Madison. She has published a number of articles in such journals as Drama Review, Slavic and Contributors East European Journal, Theatre Journal, Canadian Theatre Review, Shakespeare Quarterly, Performing Arts Journal, Theatre Quarterly and Survey. In addition, she wrote the first book-length critical study in Polish of Eugene O'Neill, which was published in 1975; and she has two books in progress: one on Tadeusz Rozewicz, and another whose tentative title is Rehearsal for Life: Polish Theatre and Paratheatre, which deals with the significance of Polish theatre in the life of Polish society since the 1950s. WERNER HUBER, who holds the Ph.D. from Mainz University, teaches English at the University ofPaderborn, West Germany. He has published a study ofJames Stephens's early novels. His main interests are in the field of Anglo-Irish literature. BETTINA L. KNAPP is Professor of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature at Hunter College and the Graduate Center CUNY; she is also Lecturer at the C.G. Jung Foundation, N.Y. In addition to numerous articles, she has written the following book-length studies: Antonin Artaud: Man ofVision; Louis Jouvet: Man ofthe Theatre; Racine; Mythos and Renewal in Modern Theatre; Jean Genet: Analytical Study; Anais Nin; and Paul Claudel. Her forthcoming volume is A Jungian Approach to Literature. MOHAMMAD KOWSAR, formerly Assistant Professor of Drama at Tehran University, currently teaches at City College of San Francisco. His articles and reviews have appeared in Theatre and Theatre Journal. RICHARD NICKSON is Professor ofEnglish at William Paterson College. He is coeditor of The Independent Shavian, triannualjournal ofThe Bernard Shaw Society, ofwhich he is president. LESLIE SMITH is Principal Lecturer in English at the Polytechnic ofNorth London, where he teaches drama and modern literature in the B.A. English Honours and M.A. Modern Drama Studies programmes. He has published work on Harold Pinter, Joe Orton, Edward Bond and Christopher Isherwood; and he is currently working on a book about farce in modem British drama. JACK E. WALLACE teaches American literature and modern drama at Miami University (Ohio). He has published articles on drama and fiction; and he is currently writing the drama section of a forthcoming book on the teaching of composition and literature. DOYLE W. WALLS is a Teaching Assistant in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin/Madison, where he is pursuing the doctoral degree. His publications in poetry and fiction include: Sou'wester, The Texas Anthology, Bits, Descant, Kudzu, Sands, The New Mexico Humanities Review, CEAForum, riverSedge, The Bluegrass Literary Review, Vanderbilt Street Review, The Pikestaff Forum, typewriter...