Edward Albee: A Research and Production Sourcebook

Edward Albee: A Research and Production Sourcebook

by Barbara L. Horn
Edward Albee: A Research and Production Sourcebook

Edward Albee: A Research and Production Sourcebook

by Barbara L. Horn

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Overview

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collection includes play synopses and critical overviews, production histories and credits, and locator suggestions on unpublished archival material and lists of texts/anthologies that have published Albee's material.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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313311413
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 12/30/2003
Series: Modern Dramatists Research and Production Sourcebooks , #19
Pages: 344
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

BARBARA LEE HORN is Professor, Dept. of Speech, Communication Sciences, and Theatre, St. John's University.

Table of Contents

Preface
A Note on Codes and Numbering
Chronology
Life and Career
Plays: Summaries, Productions, and Critical Overviews
Original Plays
Adaptations
Primary Bibliography: Writings by Albee
Plays
Articles and Essays on Drama and Theatre
Other Works
Archival Sources
Secondary Bibliography: Reviews
Secondary Bibliography: Books, Articles, Sections
Author Index
General Index

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