Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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.

Table des matières

Acknowledgments

 
CHAPTER 1: The Play's Contexts
CHAPTER 2: The Play in Retrospect: Seeing the "New" as "Old"
CHAPTER 3: The Play and Players
CHAPTER 4: The Play's Legacy


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A propos de l'auteur

Michael Y. Bennett is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Michael Y Bennett, Michael Y. Bennett
• Edition: Routledge Academic
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 11.07.2018
• EAN: 9781138097421
• ISBN: 978-1-138-09742-1
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 174 mm x 5 mm
• Thème: The Fourth Wall
• Catégories: Livres de conseils > Droit, profession, finances > Formation, profession, carrière; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Autres; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, DRAMA / American / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting, Theatre Studies, Performance Art, Writing and editing guides, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights