Articles
and Book Chapters by Robert Cohen
28. “Role Distance: On Stage and On the Merry-Go-Round,”
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism,” Fall
2004.
27. “Living Under Tibi’s Law,” Theatre
Forum, December 2003.
26. "Das Unsanfte Erwachen," (“Rude Awakening”),
Theater der Zeit, Berlin, November 2001.
25. “Putting a Tree in a Box,” Slavic and East
European Performance, Summer 2000. Also published in Polish
as “Drzewo W Pudelku” in Pamietnik
Teatralny, Warsaw 2001.
24.
"Be Your Tears Wet: Tears (And Acting) in Shakespeare,"
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Winter 1996.
23.
"Dragging Carcasses to the Firepit: Acting Theory, Practice,
and Pedagogy," Theatre Topics, September, 1995.
22. "The Year in Drama: 1993" Contemporary Literary
Criticism, Fall, 1994. (essay integrating reviews of The
Goodbye Girl, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Jeffrey, Pounding
Nails in The Floor with My Forehead, Someone Who'll Watch Over
Me, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Song Of Jacob Zulu, Redwood
Curtain, Sunset Boulevard, Life Sentences, Any Given Day, Three
Hotels, Playland, Ain't Broadway Grand, Fool Moon, Perestroika,
Family Secrets, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Four Dogs And A Bone,
and Aven' U Boys).
21. "The Year in Drama: 1992" Contemporary Literary
Criticism, Fall, 1993. (essay integrating reviews of Angels
in America, The Kentucky Cycle, Guys and Dolls, Crazy For You,
Jelly's Last Jam, Two Trains Running, Oleanna, Two Shakespearean
Actors, Four Baboons Adoring the Son, Death and The Maiden,
Conversations with My Father, Tommy, Falsettos, Jake's Women,
Five Guys Named Moe, Tubes, and Breaking Up).
20. "Intro/Extrospective Analysis," The Beat,
Winter, 1993.
19. "The Year in Drama: 1991," Contemporary Literary
Criticism, Fall, 1992. (essay integrating reviews of I
Hate Hamlet, La Bête, The Extra Man, Solitary Confinement,
Henceforward..., Ride Down Mount Morgan, Second Sight, Speed
of Darkness, Return to the Forbidden Planet, The Old Boy, Lips
Together, Teeth Apart, Lost in Yonkers, Substance of Fire, Miss
Saigon, Catskills on Broadway, Dancing at Lughansa, Park Your
Car in Harvard Yard, The Big Love, and Nick and Nora).
18. "The Year in Drama: 1990," Contemporary Literary
Criticism, Fall, 1991. (essay integrating reviews of Six
Degrees of Separation; Grapes of Wrath; Some Americans Abroad;
Icecream; Hot Fudge; Lettice and Lovage; Shadowlands; The Secret
Rapture; Aspects of Love; Buddy; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll;
Calvin Trillin's Words, No Music; Prelude to a Kiss; The Sum
of Us; Accomplice; Once on This Island; Square One; My Children!
My Africa!; and Jake's Women).
17. "The Year in Drama: 1989," Contemporary Literary
Criticism, Fall, 1990. (essay integrating reviews of Other
People's Money, Largely New York, Lend Me a Tenor, Shirley Valentine,
Abundance, Nothing Sacred, Hapgood, Nebraska, Tru, A Few Good
Men, The Lisbon Traviata, City of Angels, Grand Hotel, Mastergate,
The Art of Success, and Metamorphosis).
16.
"[Post-Stanislavskian] Acting at University of California
Irvine," International Actor Training Directory:
London: Chancery Publications Ltd., 1989, pp. 31-35.
15. "Quince's Moon: Reconfiguring Reality in A Midsummer
Night's Dream," On Stage Studies, Summer, 1989.
14.
"The Year in Drama: 1988," Contemporary Literary
Criticism, Fall, 1989. (essay integrating reviews of The
Phantom of the Opera, Legs Diamond, M. Butterfly, Joe Turner's
Come and Gone, Romance/Romance, The Heidi Chronicles, Eastern
Standard, Rumors, The Road to Mecca, Oil City Symphony, Cocktail
Hour, Italian American Reconciliation, Wenceslas Square, Kingfish,
Another Antigone, Woman in Mind, Speed the Plow, and 1001 Airplanes).
13. "The Year in Drama: 1987," Contemporary Literary
Criticism, Fall, 1988. (essay integrating reviews of Fences,
Driving Miss Daisy, Les Miserables, Burn This, Coastal Disturbances,
A Shayna Maidel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Breaking the Code,
Talkradio, Serious Money, The Nerd, A Walk in the Woods, The
Mahabharata, Sarcophagus, Hunting Cockroaches, The Piano Lesson,
The Stone House, The Boys Next Door, The Traveller, Roza, and
Starlight Express).
12. "Coming of Age in Elsinore," On Stage Studies,
Summer, 1987.
11. "The Year in Drama: 1986," Contemporary Literary
Criticism, Fall, 1987 (essay integrating reviews of The
Search for Intelligent Life in America, Drinking in America,
Broadway Bound, A Lie of The Mind, Social Security, Drood, Alcestis,
Wild Honey, Shrew, Into the Woods, Ghetto, Rum and Coke, Aunt
Dan and Lemon, Blue Window, Kvetch, How To Say Goodbye, and
So Long on Lonely Street).
10. "Spoken Dialogue in Written Drama," Essays
in Theatre, Spring, 1986.
9. "Directing Cycles," The Plaie Called Corpus Christi:
Focused Research Program in Medieval Drama, Fall, 1985.
8. "Golden Opinions, Sound and Fury," On Stage
Studies, Summer, 1983.
7. "Answers to Questions," The Drama Review,
Fall, 1975.
6. "Shakespeare's Sixteen Year Old Hamlet," Educational
Theatre Journal, May, 1973.
5. "Hamlet as Edwin Booth," Theatre Survey,
May, 1969.
4. "Oedipus and the Absurd Life," Oedipus Tyrannus
(Norton Critical Edition), 1969.
3. "Some Political Implications of The Madwoman of
Chaillot," Contemporary Literature, Spring, 1968.
Reprinted, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Vol.
94, 2001
2. "Repertory Theatre at Irvine," Experiment and
Innovation, June, 1967.
1. "Parallels and the Possibilities of Influence between
Simone Weil's Waiting for God and Samuel Beckett's Waiting
for Godot," Modern Drama, Summer, 1964.
