{"product_id":"the-cambridge-companion-to-edward-albee-paperback-9780521542333","title":"The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee (Paperback) 9780521542333","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA comprehensive survey of the work of one of America's greatest living playwrights, Edward Albee.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStephen Bottoms (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521542333, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 21 July 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e290 pages, 8 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.473 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… highly recommended for all libraries acquiring materials on literature and the theatre in English.' Reference Reviews\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eEdward 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Notes on contributors\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Notes on the text\u003cbr\u003e Chronology\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: the man who had three lives Stephen Bottoms\u003cbr\u003e 2. Albee's early one-act plays: 'A new American playwright from whom much is to be expected' Philip C. Kolin\u003cbr\u003e 3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: toward the marrow Matthew Roudané\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'Withered age and stale custom': marriage, diminution, and sex in Tiny Alice, A Delicate Balance, and Finding the Sun John M. Clum\u003cbr\u003e 5. Albee's 3 1\/2: the Pulitzer plays Thomas P. Adler\u003cbr\u003e 6. Albee's threnodies: Box-Mao-Box, All Over, The Lady from Dubuque, and Three Tall Women Brenda Murphy\u003cbr\u003e 7. Minding the play: thought and feeling in Albee's 'hermetic' works Gerry McCarthy\u003cbr\u003e 8. Albee's monster children: adaptations and confrontations Stephen Bottoms\u003cbr\u003e 9. 'Better alert than numb': Albee since the eighties Christopher Bigsby\u003cbr\u003e 10. Albee stages Marriage Play: cascading action, audience taste, and dramatic paradox Rakesh H. Solomon\u003cbr\u003e 11. 'Playing the cloud circuit': Albee's vaudeville show Linda Ben-Zvi\u003cbr\u003e 12. Albee's The Goat: rethinking tragedy for the 21st century J. Ellen Gainor\u003cbr\u003e 13. 'Words\u003cbr\u003e words … They're such a pleasure' (An Afterword) Ruby Cohn\u003cbr\u003e 14. Borrowed time: an interview with Edward Albee Stephen Bottoms\u003cbr\u003e Notes on further reading\u003cbr\u003e Select bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004086833432,"sku":"9780521542333","price":23.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521542333i_a3bf4cff-78c6-4344-9fc6-dd95d296bad5.jpg?v=1691369392","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-cambridge-companion-to-edward-albee-paperback-9780521542333","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}