Ruby Cohn is a 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).