A full study of this major contemporary play, including an interview with Edward Albee.
This work covers the canon of playwright Edward Albee, perhaps best known as the author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A social event becomes a personal challenge for two faculty members and their wives at a small New England college as their inner fears and desires are exposed. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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Edward Albee: The Poet of Loss
The influential American playwright discusses his work, the nature of art, the role of the unconscious, American culture, and the theater.
Beginning with his debut play, The Zoo Story (1958), and on to his barrier breaking works of the 1960s, most notably The American Dream (1960), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1963), and the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Delicate Balance (1966) ...
Hall, Peter. The Autobiography of Peter Hall: Making an Exhibition of Myself. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993. Harmon, Maurice, ed. No AuthorBetter Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckettand Alan Schneider.Cambridge, Mass.
Beckett Studies is fortunate to have No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider, an invaluable book that details the elaborate and scrupulous preparations made by Schneider who directed the ...
Part history, part chemistry, part whodunit, Poison: Deadly Deeds, Perilous Professions, and Murderous Medicines traces the role poisons have played in history from antiquity to the present and shines a ghoulish light on the deadly ...
When you emerge from this impish comic playwright's glittering tribute to Molière, written entirely in verse, your head will be so dizzy with syncopated rhyme that you'll almost expect to find yourself speaking and thinking in chiming ...