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. First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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.First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Bruce J. Mann is an associate professor and Chair of the English Department at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He teaches drama and modern literature and has served as a dramaturg for the university's Meadow Brook Theatre. He has published articles on Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller and Sam Shepard.
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General Editor's Note KIMBALL KING Chronology Introduction BRUCE J. MANN 1. Three Tall Women: Return to the Muses BRUCE J. MANN 2. Edward Albee: A Retrospective (and Beyond) ANNE PAOLUCCI 3. Absurdly American: Rediscovering the Representation of Violence in The Zoo Story LISA M. SIEFKER 4. Good, Better, Best, Bested: The Failure of American Typology in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? LINCOLN KONKLE 5. Like Father, Like Son: The Ciphermale in A Delicate Balance and Malcolm ROBERT F. GROSS 6. Forging Text into Theatre: Edward Albee Directs Box andQuotations from Chairman Mao Tse Tung 7. A Demystified Mystique: All Over and the Fall ofthe Cult of True Womanhood EMILY ROSENBAUM 8. The Lady from Dubuque: Into the Labyrinth RONALD F. RAPIN 9. Postmodernist Tensions in Albee's Recent Plays NORMA JENCKES 10. Directing Three Tall Women LAWRENCE SACHAROW 11. Interview with Edward Albee BRUCE J. MANN Contributors Index
General Editor's Note KIMBALL KING Chronology Introduction BRUCE J. MANN 1. Three Tall Women: Return to the Muses BRUCE J. MANN 2. Edward Albee: A Retrospective (and Beyond) ANNE PAOLUCCI 3. Absurdly American: Rediscovering the Representation of Violence in The Zoo Story LISA M. SIEFKER 4. Good, Better, Best, Bested: The Failure of American Typology in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? LINCOLN KONKLE 5. Like Father, Like Son: The Ciphermale in A Delicate Balance and Malcolm ROBERT F. GROSS 6. Forging Text into Theatre: Edward Albee Directs Box andQuotations from Chairman Mao Tse Tung 7. A Demystified Mystique: All Over and the Fall ofthe Cult of True Womanhood EMILY ROSENBAUM 8. The Lady from Dubuque: Into the Labyrinth RONALD F. RAPIN 9. Postmodernist Tensions in Albee's Recent Plays NORMA JENCKES 10. Directing Three Tall Women LAWRENCE SACHAROW 11. Interview with Edward Albee BRUCE J. MANN Contributors Index
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