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Edward Albee
Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.
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Matthew C. Roudane
These volumes provide instruction in how to read certain contemporary writers–identifying and explicating their material, themes, use of language, point of view, structures, symbolism, and responses to experience.
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Bruce Mann
A collection of essays on Albee’s work, including new studies of well-known plays, discussions of lesser-known dramas, an interview with the playwright, a chronology and a bibliography.
In Edward Albee and Absurdism, Michael Y. Bennett has assembled an outstanding team of Edward Albee scholars to address Albee’s affiliation with Martin Esslin’s label, Theatre of the Absurd, examining…
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Edward Albee’s numerous roles and achievements are reflected in the lively interviews in this collection. These reveal the many sides and responses of one of the most significant dramatists of…
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Anne Paolucci
In what is considered to be a classic in the field, (From Tension to Tonic: The Plays of Edward Albee) Paolucci here covers the plays that followed, up to Occupant.
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Mel Gussow
EDWARD ALBEE: A SINGULAR JOURNEY
Phyllis T. Dircks
Examines of the life and work of playwright Edward Albee, perhaps best known as the author of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Comprehensive entries detail each of the plays and…
Anita Stenz
This collection of essays provide a comprehensive survey of one of America’s greatest living playwrights, Edward Albee, and includes an exclusive, original interview with Mr Albee, on topics spanning his…
Matthew Roudane (Georgia State University)
This book covers all of Albee’s plays from his fifty-year career, including The Zoo Story (1959) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), and explores the contexts and legacy of…
The first volume of this three-volume collection contains the eight plays written by Albee during his early years as a playwright, from 1958 through 1965.
Barbara L. Horn
Traces the entire career of the influential and controversial playwright Edward Albee.
Edward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator explores this three-time Pulitzer prize-winning playwright’s innovations as a dramatist and theatrical artist and his contributions to the evolution of modern American drama.
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Edward Albee’s Seascape, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
K Suneetha
One of Edward Albee’s most celebrated works, A Delicate Balance premiered on Broadway in 1966 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1967, the first of three he has…
Winner of three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama during his long and distinguished career, Edward Albee is one of America’s preeminent playwrights.
In this black comedy a young couple who are madly in love with each other, have a child - the perfect family - that is, until an older couple steal…
This modern American play watches an evening with two couples and the lies they fabricate about themselves to keep on living. It is a vicious and haunting drama.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play by one of America’s greatest living playwrights
Characters: 1m, 1f / Dramatic Comedy Unapologetically flamboyant, New York sculptor Louise Nevelson’s life was one marked by intrepid artistic triumphs as well as deep inner turmoil. In Edward Albee’s…
Albee’s perversely funny sendup of a standard mid-life crisis drama … dares to suggest that even the most flawed and confused human beings deserve compassionate understanding, and the failure to…
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Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for best play, as well as a number of other prestigious awards, Three Tall Woman has been called Albee’s finest achievement. In his triumphant…
In this vicious parable about America, Mummy and Daddy live in gilt-edged insecurity, Mummy ruling with an unholy vitality that has reduced Daddy to a terrible, contented impotence. Into the…
This new collection features three acclaimed one-act plays from Edward Albee’s early years. With the initial productions of The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, and The American Dream, Albee…
Revised by the author for the 2005 Broadway revival –Cover.
A collection of some of Edward Albee’s earliest and most acclaimed works.
Michael Y. Bennett
Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? shocked audiences and critics alike with its assault on decorum. At base though, the play is simply a love story: an examination of…
Greg Carlisle
Irrevocably Intertwined outlines and analyzes each of Edward Albee’s thirty published plays, both on their own terms and from the viewpoint that each play is one facet of Albee’s entire…
Jahangir Sarwar
Harold Pinter, a Nobel laureate, has been the most gifted and prolific playwright of the British theatre. His portrayal of the vulnerability of the individual in the face of often…
Sex, Gender, and Sexualities in the Plays of Edward Albee contains a general introduction and eleven essays by American and European Albee scholars on Albee’s depictions of gender relations, sexual…
A Study Guide for Edward Albee’s American Dream, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Edward Albee’s Tiny Alice, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
I’ve been to the zoo. These opening words usher the audience into one of the most iconic plays in American theater history:
A Study Guide for Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Vaishali Patil, Balasaheb Pawar, Kishor Bhadane
Literature plays important role in society; it has the strong relations with human life. Drama is one of the genres of literature which gives the visual presentation of the mankind…
Ray Subash Chandra
This book is an attempt to study the patterns of illusion in the major plays of Harold Pinter and Edward Albee - two important living contemporary dramatists of England and…
A Study Guide for Edward Albee’s Delicate Balance: A Play, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Ruby Cohn
Edward Albee - American Writers 77 was first published in 1969. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the…
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Edward Albee, well renowned American dramatist and theatrical producer. Titles in this study guide include…
Edward Albee,Carson McCullers
Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories includes six stories that accompany the novella about shattered dreams in a small Southern town. Amelia, the proprietor of the Sad Cafe…
Tennessee Williams
The definitive text of this American classic-reissued with an introduction by Edward Albee (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance) and Williams’ essay Person-to-Person.
