Currents in contemporary drama

Cohn, Ruby

Indiana University Press

Dialogue in American drama

A critical analysis of the major trends in contemporary American theater examines the works of a wide range of playwrights, including Neil Simon, David Mamet, Sam Shephard, and Amiri Baraka

New American Dramatists, 1960-1990 (Modern Dramatists)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

A critical analysis of the major trends in contemporary American theater examines the works of a wide range of playwrights, including Neil Simon, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, and Amiri Baraka

New American Dramatists 1960-1980 (Modern Dramatists)

In the second edition of her New American Dramatists Ruby Cohn carries her panoramic survey to 1990. Not only does she augment the existing chapters on Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off-Broadway, but she adds new material on women playwrights as well as Asian-American dramatists. With the emergence of David Mamet and Sam Shepard as major playwrights, she contrasts them for mutual illumination.

New American Dramatists 1960-1990

Dramas & Plays

Palgrave HE UK

New American Dramatists: 1960-1980

Grove Pr

A Beckett Canon (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)

Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either English or French, and he often translated one to the other, but there is disagreement about the contents of his bilingual corpus. A Beckett Canon by renowned theater scholar Ruby Cohn offers an invaluable guide to the entire corpus, commenting on Beckett's work in its original language. Beginning in 1929 with Beckett's earliest work, the book examines the variety of genres in which he worked: poems, short stories, novels, plays, radio pieces, teleplays, reviews, and criticism. Cohn grapples with the difficulties in Beckett's work, including the opaque erudition of the early English verse and fiction, and the searching depths and syntactical ellipsis of the late works. Specialist and nonspecialist readers will find A Beckett Canon valuable for its remarkable inclusiveness. Cohn has examined the holdings of all of the major Beckett depositories, and is thus able to highlight neglected manuscripts and correct occasional errors in their listings. Intended as a resource to accompany the reading of Beckett's writing--in English or French, published or unpublished, in part or as a whole--the book offers context, information, and interpretation of the work of one of the last century's most important writers. Ruby Cohn is Professor Emerita of Comparative Drama, University of California, Davis. She is author or editor of many books, including Anglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama; Retreats from Realism in Recent English Drama; From Desire to Godot; and Just Play: Beckett's Theater.

Humor & Entertainment

University of Michigan Press

Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either English or French, and he often translated one to the other, but there is disagreement about the contents of his bilingual corpus. A Beckett Canon by renowned theater scholar Ruby Cohn offers an invaluable guide to the entire corpus, commenting on Beckett's work in its original language. Beginning in 1929 with Beckett's earliest work, the book examines the variety of genres in which he worked: poems, short stories, novels, plays, radio pieces, teleplays, reviews, and criticism. Cohn grapples with the difficulties in Beckett's work, including the opaque erudition of the early English verse and fiction, and the searching depths and syntactical ellipsis of the late works. Specialist and nonspecialist readers will find A Beckett Canon valuable for its remarkable inclusiveness. Cohn has examined the holdings of all of the major Beckett depositories, and is thus able to highlight neglected manuscripts and correct occasional errors in their listings. Intended as a resource to accompany the reading of Beckett's writing--in English or French, published or unpublished, in part or as a whole--the book offers context, information, and interpretation of the work of one of the last century's most important writers. Ruby Cohn is Professor Emerita of Comparative Drama, University of California, Davis. She is author or editor of many books, including Anglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama; Retreats from Realism in Recent English Drama; From Desire to Godot; and Just Play: Beckett's Theater.

Looks at the tradition of theater in Paris, discusses plays first introduced there between 1944 and 1953, and examines the themes of nonrealistic theater

From Desire to Godot: Pocket Theater of Postwar Paris

History

Olympic Marketing Corp

The notion of a contemporary cross-cultural exchange within the medium of theater is here imposed on a dozen contemporary Anglo-American dramatists: Alan Ayckbourn and Neil Simon, Edward Bond and Sam Shepard, David Mamet and Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill and Maria Irene Fornès, David Hare and David Rabe, Christopher Hampton and Richard Nelson. In each pairing, Ruby Cohn unites a British with an American playwright, exploring similarities that serve as a springboard for the exposure of a more profound, culturally-based difference.

Anglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama

Cambridge University Press

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Currents in contemporary drama

Dialogue in American drama

New American Dramatists, 1960-1990 (Modern Dramatists)

New American Dramatists 1960-1980 (Modern Dramatists)

New American Dramatists 1960-1990

New American Dramatists: 1960-1980

A Beckett Canon (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)

A Beckett Canon (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)

From Desire to Godot: Pocket Theater of Postwar Paris

Anglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama