Critical Essays On Edward Albee

Author : Philip C. Kolin,J. Madison Davis
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Dramatists, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003816134

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Critical Essays on Edward Albee by Philip C. Kolin,J. Madison Davis Pdf

This volume contains 39 essays and reviews, including several translated from German for the first time, that demonstrate the plenitude of Albee critism. The reviews cover The Zoo Story, Tiny Alice, The Death of Bessie Smith, The American Dream Counting the Ways, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Seascape, and A Delicate Balance. The volume also contains an interview with Albee, and an annotated bibliography of other interviews. Contributors include John Gassner, Clive Barns, Anne Paobicci, and John Kenneth Galbraith. ISBN 0-8161-8875-0: $35.00.

Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:49015001036228

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Edward Albee by C. W. E. Bigsby Pdf

Essays to help you understand and appreciate the works of Edward Albee.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781685661175

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Twentieth Century American Literature: Edward Albee by Harold Bloom Pdf

The landmark Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism, first published in the 1980s, is one of the most impressive collections of literary criticism ever produced. It is now available in digital format for the first time. This volume of the series provides excerpts and full-length critical essays on the playwright Edward Albee.

Author : Phyllis T. Dircks
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786456598

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Edward Albee by Phyllis T. Dircks Pdf

This work covers the canon of playwright Edward Albee, perhaps best known as the author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Comprehensive entries detail the plays and major characters. Other features include biographical information and insights into Albee's artistic beliefs, his understanding of the playwright's responsibility, the importance of music in drama, and the technical craft of writing plays.

Author : Edward Albee
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780786735815

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Stretching My Mind by Edward Albee Pdf

America's most important living playwright, Edward Albee, has been rocking our country's moral, political and artistic complacency for more than 50 years. 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), Albee's provocative, unsparing indictment of the American way of life earned him early distinction as the dramatist of his generation. His acclaim was enhanced even further in the decades that followed with prize-winning dramas such as Seascape and Three Tall Women, as well as recent works like The Play About the Baby and Who is Sylvia? Albee has brought the same critical force to his non-theatrical prose. Stretching My Mind collects for the first time ever the author's writings on theater, literature, and the political and cultural battlegrounds that have defined his career. Many of the selections were drawn from Albee's private papers, and almost all previously published material—dating from 1960 to the present—has never been reprinted. Topics include Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Sam Shepherd, as well as autobiographical writings about Albee's life, work, and worldview.

Author : Edward Albee,Joy L. Linsley,Jerome A. Kramer
Publisher : Houston, Tex. : University of St. Thomas
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015004953991

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Edward Albee by Edward Albee,Joy L. Linsley,Jerome A. Kramer Pdf

This collection includes a wide-ranging and candid interview conducted by the editors, touching on such topics as the role of art as an active, shaping force in society; the relationship between art and political institutions; dramatic production and theory; the art of adaptation; and Albee's methods and purposes as a playwright and director. The essays exemplify dramatic, literary, linguistic and psychological approaches to Albee's work and range from detailed interpretations of individual plays to broad overviews. They discuss Albee's admitted concern with the problem of "knowing" and his frequent use of abstraction and allegory as a means of exploring this theme in his work. Other topics covered are: Albee's use of elements of Pirandellian drama, the vaudevillian form of Counting the Ways, ritual and initiation in The Zoo Story and a psychological reading of Seascape. ISBN 0-8156-8106-2 : $18.00 ; ISBN 0-8156-8107-0 (pbk.) : $10.00.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798887251943

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Twentieth Century American Literature by Harold Bloom Pdf

The landmark Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism, first published in the 1980s, is one of the most impressive collections of literary criticism ever produced. It is now available in digital format for the first time. This volume of the series provides excerpts and full-length critical essays on the poet and memoirist Maya Angelou.

Author : Joan Herrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781136542190

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The Playwright's Muse by Joan Herrington Pdf

August Wilson penned his first play after seeing a man shot to death. Horton Foote began writing plays to create parts for himself as an actor. Edward Albee faced commercial pressures to modify his scripts-and resisted. After Wit, Margaret Edson swore off playwriting altogether and decided to keep her day job as a kindergarten teacher, instead. The Playwright's Muse presents never-before-published interviews with some of the greatest names of American drama-all recent winners of the Pulitzer Prize. In these scintillating exchanges with eleven leading dramatists, we learn about their inspirations and begin to grasp how the creative process works in the mind of a writer. We learn how their first plays took shape, how it felt to read their first reviews, and what keeps them writing for theater today. Introductory essays on each playwright's life and work, written by theater artists and scholars with strong professional relationships to their subjects, provide additional insight into the writers' contributions to contemporary theater.

Author : Edward Albee
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0878053425

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Conversations with Edward Albee by Edward Albee Pdf

The influential American playwright discusses his work, the nature of art, the role of the unconscious, American culture, and the theater.

Author : Richard Tyce
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015016888888

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Edward Albee, a Bibliography by Richard Tyce Pdf

Author : Matthew Roudané
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521898294

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Edward Albee by Matthew Roudané Pdf

This book covers all of Albee's original plays, spanning his entire career and containing unparalleled insights from personal interviews with the playwright.

Author : Barbara L. Horn
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015058712434

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Edward Albee by Barbara L. Horn Pdf

This volume documents the life and works of the acclaimed playwright, Edward Albee. His first four plays were all produced Off Broadway from 1960-1961, creating buzz that he was an up-and-coming avant-garde playwright. But his most notable accomplishment came a year later with his first full-length play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. His plays were linked with the philosophies of the European absurdists, Beckett and Ionesco, and the American traditional social criticism of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Eugene O'Neill. Intended to serve as a quick reference guide and an exhaustive resource, this collection includes play synopses and critical overviews, production histories and credits, and locator suggestions on unpublished archival material and lists of texts/anthologies that have published Albee's material. The two secondary bibliographies contained within are fully annotated chronologically and alphabetically with the year of publication, presenting a fuller sense of Albee's playwriting career.

Author : Nelvin Vos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Albee, Edward
ISBN : UOM:39015017661755

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Eugène Ionesco and Edward Albee by Nelvin Vos Pdf

Author : Stephen Bottoms
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521834554

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The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee by Stephen Bottoms Pdf

Edward 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004324961

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Edward Albee and Absurdism by Anonim Pdf

In Edward Albee and Absurdism, Michael Y. Bennett has assembled an outstanding team of Edward Albee scholars to address Albee’s affiliation with Martin Esslin’s label, “Theatre of the Absurd,” examining whether or not this label is appropriate.