Ruby Cohn, American author

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Papers, 1977-1986

ca. 225 items

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Ruby Cohn is a renowned theatre scholar and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Drama at University of California, Davis. She is author or editor of many books, including The Comic Gamut (1962), Samuel Beckett: A Collection of Criticism (ed. 1962), Back to Beckett (1973), Casebook on Waiting for Godot (ed. 1987), Just Play: Beckett’s Theater (1980), and most recently A Beckett Canon (2002). 

The Cohn Papers include correspondence between her and The Samuel Beckett Society, The University of Canterbury, Princeton UP, and various individuals.  There is also extensive manuscript material on her various books about Beckett.

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Cohn Ruby, 1922- . American author

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Irish-Author
 
 

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