{"product_id":"glancing-at-dramatists-dialogue-from-shakespeare-to-suzan-lori-parks-9781350425965","title":"Glancing at Dramatists' Dialogue: From Shakespeare to Suzan-Lori Parks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book examines dramatic dialogue in English-language theatre, tracing verbal invention across four centuries from Shakespeare and Restoration comedy right up to contemporary English and American theatre.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished posthumously, this renowned theatre scholar's book considers English dramatic dialogue as exemplified in the verbal invention of particular plays. That invention is traced through puns, repetitions, adroit clichés, occasional neologisms, malapropisms, sound play and more or less recondite allusions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn eight chapters, Cohn offers close readings of monologue and dialogue in plays by William Shakespeare, William Wycherley, George Etherege, William Congreve, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Tom Stoppard, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Caryl Churchill, Sam Shepard, Adrienne Kennedy and Suzan-Lori Parks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's a fascinating text, written with Cohn's characteristic wit, warmth and lucidity, and offers both an authoritative introduction to theatre dialogue and a remarkable final addition to Cohn's scholarly legacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuby Cohn \u003c\/b\u003e(1922 - 2011) was for 30 years at UC Davis, where she was a member of the comparative literature and theatre departments and affiliated with the English and French departments. She taught courses on modern and experimental drama, Shakespeare's legacies in modern drama, dramatic genres, and Samuel Beckett and his contemporaries. She was one of the foremost authorities on the work of Samuel Beckett and published a number of books on his work, including \u003ci\u003eA Beckett Canon\u003c\/i\u003e (2001).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniela Caselli\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Modern Literature in the English Department at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eInsufferable: Beckett, Gender and Sexuality \u003c\/i\u003e(2023), \u003ci\u003eImproper Modernism: Djuna Barnes's Bewildering Corpus\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) and \u003ci\u003eBeckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e (2005). She edited \u003ci\u003eBeckett and Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e in 2010. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eComparative Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), \u003ci\u003eParallax \u003c\/i\u003e(2016), \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to American Gay and Lesbian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), and \u003ci\u003eFeminist Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (2010).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHannah Simpson \u003c\/b\u003eis Lecturer in Drama and Performance in the English Faculty at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eSamuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness: Pain in Post-War Francophone Drama\u003c\/i\u003e (2022) and \u003ci\u003eSamuel Beckett and Disability Performance\u003c\/i\u003e (2022). She has edited special issues for \u003ci\u003eTwentieth Century Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMedical Humanities \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eJournal of War and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eStudies\u003c\/i\u003e, serves as the Theatre Review Editor for The Beckett Circle at the Samuel Beckett Society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52160178094354,"sku":"9781350425965","price":131.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5c74fc0a-60a9-4a32-8de2-737efa062c07.jpg?v=1775039349","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/glancing-at-dramatists-dialogue-from-shakespeare-to-suzan-lori-parks-9781350425965","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}