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.
目錄：
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Notes on the text
Chronology
1 Introduction: The man who had three lives
2 Albee’s early one-act plays: “A new American playwright from whom
much is to be expected”
3 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Toward the marrow
4 “Withered age and stale custom”: Marriage, diminution, and sex in
Tiny Alice, A Delicate Balance, and Finding the Sun
5 Albee’s 312: The Pulitzer plays
6 Albee’s threnodies: Box-Mao-Box, All Over, The Lady from Dubuque,
and Three Tall Women
7 Minding the play: Thought and feeling in Albee’s “hermetic”
works
8 Albee’s monster children: Adaptations and confrontations
9 “Better alert than numb”: Albee since the eighties
10 Albee stages Marriage Play: Cascading action, audience taste,
and dramatic paradox
11 “Playing the cloud circuit”: Albee’s vaudeville show
12 Albee’s The Goat: Rethinking tragedy for the 21st century
13 “Words; words . . . They’re such a pleasure.” An
Afterword
14 Borrowed time: An interview with Edward Albee
Notes on further reading
Select bibliography
Index
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