Ruby Cohn (1922–2011)

Author of Casebook on Waiting for Godot

24 Works 221 Members 2 Reviews

About the Author

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"; & "Just Play: Beckett's Theater". (Bowker show more Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: Ruby C Ohn, Ruby ed. Cohn

Works by Ruby Cohn

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Casebook on Waiting for Godot (1967) 54 copies

Twentieth Century Drama: England, Ireland, the United States (1966) 47 copies

Four Contemporary French Plays [The Modern Library, 90.3] (1967) 21 copies

New American Dramatists: 1960-1980 (Grove Press modern dramatists) (1982) 15 copies

Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" (Casebook) (1987) 10 copies

Samuel Beckett: A Collection of Criticism (Contemporary Studies in Literature) (1975) 10 copies

A Beckett Canon (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance) (2001) 9 copies

Samuel Beckett: the comic gamut (1962) 8 copies

From Desire to Godot: Pockets Theater of Postwar Paris (1987) 7 copies

Just play: Beckett's theater (1980) 7 copies

Modern Shakespeare Offshoots (1976) 6 copies

Monologues de Minuit (1965) 4 copies

Back to Beckett (1974) 4 copies

Currents in contemporary drama (1969) 3 copies

Edward Albee (University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers) (1969) 3 copies

Classics for Contemporaries (1968) 3 copies

Retreats from realism in recent English drama (1991) 2 copies

20th Century Drama: England, Ireland, the United States (1966) 2 copies

"Philosophical Fragments in the Works of Samuel Beckett" 1 copy

"Growing (Up?) with Godot" 1 copy

Journal of Modern Literature (JML), February 1977: Samuel Beckett Number (Volume Six, Number 1) (1977) 1 copy

Just Play: Beckett's Theater (Princeton Legacy Library) (2014) 1 copy

Anglo-American interplay in recent drama (2010) 1 copy

Classics for Contemporaries-Old Dramas for New Theaters 1 copy

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Legal name: Burman, Ruby
Birthdate: 1922-08-13
Date of death: 2011-10-18
Gender: female
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Place of death: Oakland, California, USA
Places of residence: New York, New York, USA
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Paris, France
Education: Hunter College
University of Paris
Sorbonne
Washington University
Occupations: theater scholar

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Four Contemporary French Plays [The Modern Library,… by Ruby Cohn

Antigone is patronizing but the rest are genius

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galuf84 | Jul 27, 2022 |

Just Play: Beckett's Theater by Ruby Cohn

Of interest for a number a reasons, but, for me, mainly because this is the only book in which I've found mention of Joseph Dunn and the American Contemporary Theater (Buffalo, NY) which adapted The Unnamable for stage.

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mandojoe | Jun 9, 2016 |

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