Modern Drama Studies: An Annual Bibliography

Abstract

1994 marks the beginning of the third decade of publication of Modern Drama Studies: An Annual Bibliography. The basic principles and limitations described in the June 1984 issue remain the same, as does its primary objective, which is to record current scholarship, criticism, and commentary that may prove valuable to students of dramatic literature and, to a lesser extent, of theatre history. The bibliography embraces all the expected areas and topics of modem world drama, including playwrights who lived past 1899 (plus Becque) and influential theatre figures other than performers. Reviews, reprinted books, unpublished theses, and graduate-student periodicals are generally excluded. The annual bibliography also serves as a supplement to Charles Carpenter's Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism 1966-1980: An International Bibliography (University of Toronto Press, 1986).