Drama (Sixth Edition)

Author: Robert Cohen (USA)
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Publication Date: 2006-08-01
Features: Cohen is both a highly erudite scholar and an experienced professional director, as well as a renowned theater critic and an outstanding playwright. He has traveled across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Australia to study the history of theater, deeply experiencing its diverse forms, and has written this monumental work. It has become the most authoritative and popular university theater textbook and general theater reader in the United States today. The first half of the book vividly and thoroughly presents all aspects of theater as a comprehensive art, from scriptwriting to stage practice. The second half focuses on depicting the fusion and evolution of modern theater and the latest trends in contemporary theater. Dr. Cohen's profound and delicate artistic sensitivity and the artistic passion that pours out between the lines will move you. Who is more suited to write such a book than Dr. Robert Cohen? Cohen is both a highly erudite scholar and an experienced professional director, as well as a renowned theater critic and an outstanding playwright. He is rooted in Western theater while possessing a strong global perspective and a sense of humanity. To write a book "that can transcend language and borders, conveying universal values of theater," Cohen traveled across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Australia to study the history of theater and deeply experience its diverse forms. To keep pace with the latest developments in theater, the book has been continuously revised and reprinted over the past two decades, becoming the most authoritative and popular university theater textbook and general theater reader in the United States today. The first half of the book vividly and thoroughly presents all aspects of theater as a comprehensive art, from scriptwriting to stage practice. The second half, after deeply exploring the origins of theater art and the history of Eastern and Western theater, focuses on depicting the fusion and evolution of modern theater and the latest trends in contemporary theater, and finally dedicates a chapter to comprehensively explaining the theory and practice of theater criticism. As the most popular university textbook, the greatest feature of this book is that it "is not like a textbook"—in addition to integrating universal professional and aesthetic knowledge with rich historical details and theater practice, what truly moves people is the author's profound and delicate artistic sensitivity and the artistic passion that pours out between the lines. Open the pages, and you will step into a strange yet familiar world of theater.