Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Paperback)

Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? shocked audiences and critics alike with its assault on decorum. At base though, the play is simply a love story: an examination of a long-wedded life, filled with the hopes, dreams, disappointments, and pain that accompany the passing of many years together. While the ethos of the play is tragicomic, it is the anachronistic, melodramatic secret object-the nonexistent "son"-that upends the audience's sense of theatrical normalcy. The mean and vulgar bile spewed among the characters hides these elements, making it feel like something entirely "new." As Michael Y. Bennett reveals, the play is the same emperor, just wearing new clothes. In short, it is straight out of the grand tradition of living room drama: Ibsen, Chekhov, Glaspell, Hellmann, O'Neill, Wilder, Miller, Williams, and Albee.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Fourth Wall
Release date:	July 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Michael Y Bennett
Dimensions:	174 x 136 x 5mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	56
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-09742-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Performance art Promotions
LSN:	1-138-09742-X
Barcode:	9781138097421

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