Modern Drama was founded in 1958 and is the most prominent journal in English to focus on dramatic literature. The terms "modern" and "drama" are the subject of continuing and fruitful debate, but the journal has been distinguished by the excellence of its close readings of both canonical and lesser-known dramatic texts from a range of methodological perspectives. The journal features refereed articles written from a variety of geo-political points of view which enhance our understanding, both formal and historical, of the dramatic literature of the past two centuries; there is also an extensive book review section.
Published quarterly.E-ISSN: 1712-5286
ISSN: 0026-7694
Editorial Assistants - Isabel Stowell-Kaplan
Book
Review Editor - Nicholas G Salvato
Submitted articles and editorial correspondence
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Books
for review and book reviews correspondence should be sent to:
Nicholas G Salvato
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Cornell University
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Please submit articles by email attachment. Submitted articles should not normally exceed 9000 words, should include all appropriate documentation, and should conform to The MLA Handbook, 6th Edition. (Please note that it is the policy of the journal, in keeping with the principles laid out in the MLA Handbook, to discourage the use of content notes.) Submissions, including Notes and Works Cited, should be double spaced. Submissions considered for publication will be blind vetted by two readers in the field; please include your name on a top sheet only.
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Each year three members of the Editorial Advisory Board, along with the editor, decides which article is the best published in the most recently issued volume. The winner is awarded a prize of $500 and a certificate of merit.
Previous Winners:
Julie Stone Peters, "Jane Harrison and the Savage Dionysus: Archaeological Voyages, Ritual Origins, Anthropology, and the Modern Theatre," Modern Drama 51:1
Darren Gobert, "Cognitive Catharsis in The Caucasian Chalk Circle," Modern Drama 49:1.
Nick Salvato, "Uncloseting Drama: Gertrude Stein and the Wooster Group,” Modern Drama 50:1
Honourable Mention:
Stanton B. Garner Jr., "The Gas Heart: Disfigurement and the Dada Body," Modern Drama 50:4
