Edward Albee - A Casebook

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

A collection of essays on Albee's work, including new studies of well-known plays, discussions of lesser-known dramas, an interview with the playwright, a chronology and a bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce Mann, Mann Bruce
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2002
• EAN: 9780815331650
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-3165-0
• No. of pages: 164
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 460 g
• Series: Casebooks on Modern Dramatists
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights