Edward Albee : a casebook / edited by Bruce J. Mann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mann, Bruce J., 1952-

Series:

Casebooks on modern dramatists.

Casebooks on modern dramatists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Albee, Edward, 1928-2016--Criticism and interpretation.

Albee, Edward.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the ""angry young man"" who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in 1962, determined to expose the emptiness of American experience to Tiny Alice which reveals his indebtedness to Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco's Theatre of the Absurd, Edward Albee's varied work makes it difficult to label him precisely. Bruce Mann and his contributors approach Albee as an innovator in theatrical form, filling a critical gap in theatrical scholarship.

Contents:

Three tall women: return to the muses / Bruce J. Mann

Edward Albee: a retrospective (and beyond) / Anne Paolucci

Absurdly American: rediscovering the representation of violence in The zoo story / Lisa M. Siefker Bailey

'Good, better, best, bested': the failure of American typology in Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? / Lincoln Konkle

Like father, like son: the ciphermale in A delicate balance and Malcolm / Robert F. Gross

Forging text into theatre: Edward Albee directs Box and quotations from chairman Mao Tse-Tung / Rakesh H. Solomon

A demystified mystique: all over and the fall of the cult of true womanhood / Emily Rosenbaum

The lady from Dubuque: into the labyrinth / Ronald F. Rapin

Postmodernist tensions in Albee's recent plays / Norma Jenckes

Directing Three tall women / Lawrence Sacharow

Interview with Edward Albee / Bruce J. Mann.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-57954-7

0-7156-3799-1

1-135-57955-5

1-280-10386-8

0-203-00938-X

9780203009383

OCLC:

252946556