| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 263 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature |
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Cambridge companions to literature
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| Contents |
Introduction: The man who had three lives / Stephen Bottoms -- Albee's early one-act plays: "A new American playwright from whom much is to be expected" / Philip C. Kolin -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?: toward the marrow / Matthew Roudané -- "Withered age and stale custom": marriage, diminution, and sex in Tiny Alice, A delicate balance, and Finding the sun / John M. Clum -- Albee's 3¹/₂: the Pulitzer plays / Thomas P. Adler -- Albee's threnodies: Box-Mao-box, All over, The lady from Dubuque, and Three tall women / Brenda Murphy -- Minding the play: thought and feeling in Albee's "hermetic" works / Gerry McCarthy -- Albee's monster children: adaptations and confrontations / Stephen Bottoms -- "Better alert than numb": Albee since the eighties / Christopher Bigsby -- Albee stages Marriage play: cascading action, audience taste, and dramatic paradox / Rakesh H. Solomon -- "Playing the cloud circuit": Albee's vaudeville show / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Albee's The goat: rethinking tragedy for the 21st century / J. Ellen Gainor -- "Words; words ... they're such a pleasure." (an afterword) / Ruby Cohn -- Borrowed time: an interview with Edward Albee / Stephen Bottoms |
| Summary |
Edward Albee, best known for his 1960s drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is one of America's greatest living playwrights. Now in his seventies, he is still writing award-winning dramas. The essays in this collection provide a comprehensive, multi-faceted survey of Albee's career |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-258) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Albee, Edward, 1928-2016 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Albee, Edward 1928-2016 |
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Albee, Edward -- Criticism and interpretation. cct |
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Albee, Edward, 1928- |
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Albee, Edward, 1928- -- analys och tolkning. sao |
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Albee, Edward, 1928-2016. fast (OCoLC)fst00044544 |
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Albee, Edward. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bottoms, Stephen J. (Stephen James), 1968-
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| ISBN |
0521542332 (pbk.) |
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0521834554 |
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1139000780 |
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9780521542333 (pbk.) |
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9780521834551 |
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9781139000789 |
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