Eight Plays For Theatre [Paperback]

Robert Cohen (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0874848504 | ISBN-13: 978-0874848502 | Publication Date: February 5, 1988 | Edition: 1

This collection represents a complete range of Western drama since the beginning of recorded dramatic history. This anthology and the anthology above offer a choice to those instructors who prefer complete works to excerpts.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

ROBERT COHEN was the founding chair Drama at the University of California at Irvine, where he continues to serve as the department's Claire Trevor Professor of Drama. He has also been a resident acting teacher at the Actors Center in New York, the Shanghai Theatre Academy, the Korean National Arts University, and the national theatre academies of Hungary, Finland, and Estonia. He is an accomplished stage director, scholar, playwright, drama critic, and teacher. A director by training (Doctor of Fine Arts, Yale Drama School), Cohen has staged thirteen professional productions at the Utah and Colorado Shakespeare Festivals, plus well over a hundred productions at Stages Theatre Center (Hollywood), Virginia Museum Theatre (Richmond), Theatre 40 (Beverly Hills), Image Theatre (Boston), Summer Repertory Theatre (Santa Rosa), the Medieval Drama Project (Irvine), the Manhattan Theatre Source, various universities, and several operas, videos and films. In addition to Theatre and Theatre: Brief Edition, he is also the author of many theatre books, including Acting One, Advanced Acting, Acting in Shakespeare, Acting Professionally, Acting Power, More Power to You, Giraudoux: Three Faces of Destiny, Creative Play Direction, and two dramatic anthologies. His essays have appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, Theatre Forum, Theatre Survey, Modern Drama, Theater der Zeit, Essays in Theatre, On Stage Studies, The Drama Review, Contemporary Literature, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Slavic and East European Performance, Experiment and Innovation, and Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Cohen's play, The Prince, published by Dramatic Publishing Company, has been professionally produced in Long Beach, Pittsburgh, Budapest, and in staged readings in New York and Los Angeles; his dramatic translations (The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Misanthrope, Clizia, Tibi's Law) and opera translations (The Magic Flute, Carmen) have been both produced and published widely. For the past twenty years, Cohen has been the Southern California drama critic for Plays International, reviewing over two hundred plays. In 1999, he received the national Career Achievement award from ATHE - the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.

Product Details

• Paperback: 275 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 1 edition (February 5, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0874848504
• ISBN-13: 978-0874848502
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #361,665 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A companion to "Twelve Plays for Theatre" also by Robert Cohen, January 23, 2006

By 

JJGemini "Dude in a monkey suit" (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eight Plays For Theatre (Paperback)

Please note that translated plays (Sophocles, Moliere, Chekov, etc) may be different from other current translations, but are still good.

The plays included are as follows:

1. Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos
2. The Plaie Called Corpus Christi, Part 1: The Beginnings
3. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
4. Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), The Bourgeois Gentleman
5. August Strindberg, Miss Julie
6. Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters
7. Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
8. Sam Shepard, Fool for Love