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Notes on Contributors
Hans Walter Gabler is wissenschaftlicher Assistent in the Department of English at the University of Munich (Germany). In September 1973, he organized an international conference on "Modern Methods and Problems of Editing" at Bellagio (Italy). While engaged in bibliographical research towards a study on "Verse and Prose in Jacobean Drama", he came upon the copy 'HB' of James Joyce's Portrait. This find sparked off the investigation of Joycean textual problems on which the article in this volume is an intermediary report.
G. THOMAS TANSELLE, Professor of English in the University of Wisconsin, is Bibliographical Editor of the Northwestern Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville.
S. W. Reid, Assistant Professor of English at Kent State University, is continuing the study of Compositor B in the Shakespeare First Folio which he began while a graduate student at the University of Virginia.
Fredson Bowers, General Editor of an edition of The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon, now in its third volume, is Linden Kent Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
Robert K. Turner, Jr., Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is working on a study of the proof-reading of the Beaumont and Fletcher Folio of 1647. He is chairman of the MLA's New Variorum Shakespeare Committee, for which he and Dr. Cyrus Hoy are editing a Variorum Winter's Tale.
E. F. Shields, Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, has published articles on Robert Browning, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, and is currently working on a book-length study on the process of poetry.
Millard Jones, Assistant Professor of English at Centenary College of Louisiana, is completing a study in depth of the printing of the first quarto of Othello.
Wayne Franklin, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa and Secretary of the Association for Studies in American Indian Literatures,
John Pfordresher, Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of New Hampshire, is editor of the forthcoming Variorum Edition of the Idylls of the King, to be published by Columbia University Press.
Harold F. Brooks holds a personal chair at Birkbeck College (University of London) and is joint General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare, for which he is now editing A Midsummer Night's Dream, having begun his theatre-going, aged six, at Granville Barker's famous production. His complete edition of John Oldham is in the final stages of revision. His Chaucer's Pilgrims (1960) is still in print. Though sixty-six, he rashly hopes to finish a book on 'John Dryden: the Major Satires,' and to follow up articles on Bernard Shaw and on the genre of drama.
Nancy and Melvin Palmer share an office at Western Maryland College, courses in Comparative Literature, research on the French and English fairy tale, and twin daughters.
James E. Tierney, Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, is preparing an edition of the Robert Dodsley correspondence, as well as a study of the publisher's periodical, The Museum; or, Literary and Historical Register.
A. B. England, Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, has written several articles on eighteenth-century literature, and is at present studying the nature and theory of burlesque poetry in the eighteenth century.
Anne Lancashire, Associate Professor of English at University College, University of Toronto, has edited John Lyly's Gallathea and Midas for the Regents Renaissance Drama Series, and is currently completing for the Revels Plays an edition of the anonymous Second Maiden's Tragedy.
Rodger L. Tarr, Associate Professor at Illinois State University, is compiler of A Bibliography of English Language Articles on Thomas Carlyle: 1900-1965, co-editor of a forthcoming collection of original essays on Carlyle, and author of articles on Carlyle, Dickens, and related topics. He is continuing work in Carlylean bibliography and is engaged on a critical study of Carlyle and the Victorian social novel. Tarr is a contributing member of the MLA Victoria Bibliography Committee.
Elizabeth A. Swaim is Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist at Wesleyan University.
Oliver Steele, Associate Professor at the University of Iowa, teaches courses in Renaissance literature and is working on an edition of Books III and IV of The Faerie Queene with Professor Robert Kellogg of the University of Virginia. He is also doing a modern edition of Tatler's Miscellany.
Gillian G. M. Kyles is the Senior Research Assistant on the University of Virginia edition of The Works of Stephen Crane and has recently been appointed assistant to the editor of SB.
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