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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ASHLEY, Leonard R.N. Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Author of Colley Cibber, 1965; I 9th-Century British Drama, 1967; Authorship and Evidence· A Study of Attribution and the Renaissance Drama, 1968; History of the Short Story, 1968; George Peele· The Man and His Work, 1970. Editor of the Enriched Classics series, several anthologies of fiction and drama, and a number of facsimile editions. Essays: Henry Brooke; Colley Cibber; Aaron Hill; Edward Moore; Elkanah Settle. BACKSCHEIDER, Paula R. Associate Professor of English, University of Rochester, New York. Author of "Defoe's Women: Snares and Prey" in Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture, 1977, and "Home's Douglas and the Theme of the Unfulfilled Life" in Studies in Scotti.~h Literature, 1978. Editor of the Garland series Eighteenth-Century Drama (60 vols.) and of Probability, Time, and Space in Eighteenth Century Literature, 1978. Essay: John Crowne. BATTESTIN, Martin C. William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Author of The Moral Basis of Fielding's Art, 1959, The Providence of Wit· Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature and the Arts, 1974, and a forthcoming biography of Fielding. Editor of the Wesleyan Edition of Fielding's works, and of Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, and Amelia. Essay: Henry Fielding. BEVIS, R. W. Member of the Department of English, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Editor, Eighteenth Century Drama· Afterpieces, 1970. Essays: George Colman, the Elder; John Dennis; Samuel Foote; Charles Macklin; William Whitehead. FAULKNER, Peter. Member of the Department of English, University of Exeter, Devon. Author of William Morris and W B. Yeats, 1962; Yeats and the Irish Eighteenth Century, 1965; Humanism in the English Novel, 1976; Modernism, 1977. Editor of William Morris· The Critical Heritage, 1973, and of works by Morris. Essay: Thomas Holcroft. HILSON, J. C. Lecturer in English, University of Leicester. Editor of Augustan Worlds (with M. M. B. Jones and J. R. Watson), 1978, and An Essay on Historical Composition, by James Moor, I 97 8. Author of articles on Hume, Richardson, Smollett, and Conrad. Essay: Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery. HUGHES, Leo. Professor of English, University of Texas, Austin. Author of A Century of Engli.~h Farce, 1956, and The Drama's Patrons, 1971. Editor of Ten English Farces (with Arthur H. Scouten), 1948, and The Plain Dealer by William Wycherley, 1967. Essay: Edward Ravenscroft. JEFFARES, A. Norman. Professor of English Studies, University of Stirling, Scotland; Editor of Ariel· A Review of International Engli.~h Literature, and General Editor of the Writers and Critics series and the New Oxford English series; Past Editor of A Review of English Studies. Author of Yeats· Man and Poet, 1949; Seven Centuries of Poetry, 1956; A Commentary on the Collected Poem~ (1958) and Collected Plays (1975) of Yeats. Editor of Restoration Comedy, 1974, and Yeats· The Critical Heritage, 1977. Essays: William Congreve; Richard Brinsley Sheridan. KELLY, Gary. Member of the Department of English, University of Alberta, Edmonton. Author of The English Jacobin Novel 1 78G-1805, 1976. Editor of Mary, and The Wrongs of Women bv Marv Wollstonecraft. 1976. Essav: Elizabeth lnchbald. 150 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS KUNZ, Don. Associate Professor of English, University of Rhode Island, Kingston. Author of The Drama of Thomas Shadwell, 1972, and of articles on Shadwell in Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research Essay: Thomas Shadwell. LEWIS, Peter. Lecturer in English, University of Durham. Author of The Beggar's Opera (critical study), 1976, and articles on Restoration and Augustan drama and modern poetry. Editor of The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, 1973, and Poems '74 (anthology of Anglo-Welsh poetry), 1974. Essays: George Farquhar; John Gay; George Lillo; Sir John Vanbrugh; John Wilson. LINK, Frederick M. Professor of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Author of Aphra Behn, 1968, and English Drama 1660-1800 ·A Guide to Information Sources, 1976. Editor of The Rover by Behn, 1967, andAureng-Zebe by John Dryden, 1971. Essays: Aphra Behn; Henry Carey; Hannah Cowley. MACKERNESS, E. D. Member of the Department of English Literature, University of Sheffield. Author of The Heeded Voice· Studies in the Literary Status of the Anglican Sermon /8Jo-J900, 1959, A Social History ofEnglish Music, 1964, and Somewhere Further North· A History of Music in Sheffield, 1974. Editor of The Journals of George Sturt 1890-192 7. 1967. Essay: John Hughes. MALEK, James S. Professor of English and Associate Graduate Dean, University of Idaho, Moscow. Author of The Arts Compared· An Aspect of Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics, 1974, and of articles in Modern Philology, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and other periodicals. Essays: Sir George Etherege; John Home; Arthur Murphy. MINER, Earl. Townsend Martin Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Princeton University, New Jersey. Author of Dryden's Poetry, 1967; An Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry, 1968; The Metaphysical Mode from Donne to Cowley. 1969; The Cavalier Mode from Jonson to Cotton, 1971 ; Seventeenth-Century Imagery, 1971 ; The Restoration Mode from Milton to Dryden, 1974; Japanese Linked Poetry, 1978. Essay: John Dryden. MORPURGO, J. E. Professor of American Literature, University of Leeds. Author and editor of many books, including the Pelican History of the United States, 1955 (third edition, 1970), and volumes on Cooper, Lamb, Trelawny, Barnes Wallis, and on Venice, Athens, and rugby football. Essay: John Burgoyne. OLIVER-MORDEN, B. C. Teacher at the Open University and the University of Keele. Editor of the 18th-Century section of The Year's Work in English 1973 Essay: Oliver Goldsmith. ROGERS, Pat. Professor of English, University of Bristol. Author of Grub Street· Studies in a Subculture, 1972, and The Augustan Vision, 197 4. Editor of A Tour Through Great Britain by Daniel Defoe, 1971, Defoe· The Critical Heritage, 1972, and The Eighteenth Century, 1978. Essay: Susanna Centlivre. SCOUTEN, Arthur H. Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Author of articles on Swift, Defoe, and the London theatre in periodicals. Editor of Ten English Farces (with Leo Hughes), 1948, The London Stage 3, 2 vols., 1961, and/, 1965, and A Bibliography of the Writings of Swift by Teerink Herman, second edition, I 963. Essays: John Banks; Thomas D'Urfey; Sir Robert Howard; Nathaniel Lee. NaTES ON CONTRIBUTORS I 5 I SOWMON, Harry M. Associate Professor of English, Auburn University, Alabama. Author of Sir Richard Blackmore (forthcoming), and of articles on Shaftesbury, Swift, and others for Southern Humanities Review, Keats-Shelley J~urnal, Studies in English Literature, and other periodicals. Essay: Robert Dodsley. SPENCER, Christopher. Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Author of Nahum Tate, 1972. Editor of Davenant 's Macbeth from the Yale Manuscript, 1961, and Five Restoration Adaptations of Shakespeare, 1965. Essay: Nahum Tate. STAGG, Louis Charles. Professor of English, Memphis State University, Tennessee; Member of the Executive Committee, Tennessee Philological Association. Author of Index to Poe's Critical Vocabulary, I 966; Index to the Figurative Language in the Tragedies of Webster, Jonson, Heywood, Chapman, Marston, Tourneur, and Middleton, 7 vols., 1967-70, revised edition, as Index to the Figurative Language of the Tragedies of Shakespeare's Chief 17th-Century Contemporaries, 1977. Essay: Nicholas Rowe. STROUP, Thomas B. Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky, Lexington. Author of a book on composition, and of Microcosmos· The Shape of the Elizabethan Play, 1965, and Religious Rite and Ceremony in Milton's Poetry, 1968. Editor or Joint Editor of Humanistic Scholarship in the South, 1948; South Atlantic Studies for Sturgis E Leavitt, 1953; The Works of Nathaniel Lee, 2 vols., 1954-55; The Selected Poems of George Daniel of Beswick, 1959; The Cestus· A Mask, 1962; The University and the American Future, 1965; The Humanities and the Understanding of Reality, 1966. Essay: Thomas Otway. TASCH, Peter A. Associate Professor of English, Temple University, Philadelphia; Co­ Editor of The Scrib/erian. Author of The Dramatic Cobbler· The Life and Works of Isaac Bickerstaff 1971. Editor of Fables by the Late Mr Gay, 1970. Essays: Isaac Bickerstaff; Charles Dibdin; David Garrick; Hugh Kelly. THOMSON, Peter. Professor of Drama, University of Exeter, Devon. Author of Ideas in Action, 1977. Editor of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, 1970; Essays on Nineteenth-Century British Theatre (with Kenneth Richards), 1971 ; The Eighteenth-Century Engli.~h Stage, I 97 3; Lord Byron·.~ Family, 1975. Essays: George Colman, the Y-ounger; Thomas Morton; John O'Keeffe. THORNTON, Ralph R. Associate Professor of English, La Salle College, Philadelphia. Editor of The Wives' Excuse, 1973, and The Maid's Last Prayer, 1978, both by Thomas Southerne. Essay: Thomas Southerne. TRUSSLER, Simon. Editor of Theatre Quarterly Theatre Critic, Tribune, 1969-76. Author of several books on theatre and drama, including studies of John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, John Whiting, Harold Pinter, and Edward Bond, and of articles on theatre bibliography and classification. Editor of two collections of eighteenth-century plays and of The Oxford Companion to the Theatre, 1969. Essays: Richard Cumberland; Sir Richard Steele; George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. WEALES, Gerald. Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Drama Critic for The Reporter and Commonweal. Author of Religion in Modern English Drama, 1961 ; American Drama since World War II, 1962; A Play and Its Parts, 1964; The Jumping­ OffPlace· American Drama in the /960 's, 1969; Clifford Odets, I g71. Editor of The Complete Plays of William Wycher/ey, 1966, and, with Robert J. Nelson, of the collections Enclosure, 1975, and Revolution, 1975. Essay: William Wycherley. .
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