The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee
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- Editor: Stephen Bottoms, University of Leeds
- Date Published: July 2005
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521542333
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Edward Albee, perhaps best known for his acclaimed and infamous 1960s drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is one of America's greatest living playwrights. Now in his seventies, he is still writing challenging, award-winning dramas. This collection of essays on Albee, which includes contributions from the leading commentators on Albee's work, brings fresh critical insights to bear by exploring the full scope of the playwright's career, from his 1959 breakthrough with The Zoo Story to his recent Broadway success, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (2002). The contributors include scholars of both theatre and English literature, and the essays thus consider the plays both as literary texts and as performed drama. The collection considers a number of Albee's lesser-known and neglected works, provides a comprehensive introduction and overview, and includes an exclusive, original interview with Mr Albee, on topics spanning his whole career.
Read more- Collection of essays from the most recognized and leading Albee scholars
- Includes an original interview with Edward Albee exclusive to this volume
- A comprehensive selection of essays covering the whole breadth of Albee's career up to and including The Goat (2002), and reassessing lesser-known plays as well as major works
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- Date Published: July 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521542333
- length: 290 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 26 mm
- weight: 0.473kg
- contains: 8 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Notes on the text
Chronology
1. Introduction: the man who had three lives Stephen Bottoms
2. Albee's early one-act plays: 'A new American playwright from whom much is to be expected' Philip C. Kolin
3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: toward the marrow Matthew Roudané
4. 'Withered age and stale custom': marriage, diminution, and sex in Tiny Alice, A Delicate Balance, and Finding the Sun John M. Clum
5. Albee's 3 1/2: the Pulitzer plays Thomas P. Adler
6. Albee's threnodies: Box-Mao-Box, All Over, The Lady from Dubuque, and Three Tall Women Brenda Murphy
7. Minding the play: thought and feeling in Albee's 'hermetic' works Gerry McCarthy
8. Albee's monster children: adaptations and confrontations Stephen Bottoms
9. 'Better alert than numb': Albee since the eighties Christopher Bigsby
10. Albee stages Marriage Play: cascading action, audience taste, and dramatic paradox Rakesh H. Solomon
11. 'Playing the cloud circuit': Albee's vaudeville show Linda Ben-Zvi
12. Albee's The Goat: rethinking tragedy for the 21st century J. Ellen Gainor
13. 'Words
words … They're such a pleasure' (An Afterword) Ruby Cohn
14. Borrowed time: an interview with Edward Albee Stephen Bottoms
Notes on further reading
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Index.
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