MARVIN CARLSON is Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature in the Ph.D. Program at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His research and teaching interests include dramatic theory and Western European theatre history and dramatic literature, especially of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. He has been awarded the ATHE Center Achievement Award, the George Jean Nathan Prize, the Bernard Hewitt prize, the George Freedley Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His best-known book, Theories of the Theatre (Cornell University Press, 1993), has been translated into five languages. His most recent books are Performance: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 1993) and Voltaire and the Theatre of the Eighteenth Century (Greenwood, 1998) and The Haunted Stage (Michigan, 2001), which received the Calloway Award.

Western European Stages

Contemporary Theatre in Egypt

Pixérécourt: Four Melodramas

Theatre Research Resources in New York City

The Heirs of Molière