| Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Contributor(s): Bennett, Michael Y. (Author) |
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ISBN: 113809742X ISBN-13: 9781138097421 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General - Performing Arts | Theater - Playwriting - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 812.54 |
| LCCN: 2018006659 |
| Series: Fourth Wall |
| Physical Information: (0.15 lbs) 56 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |