1st Edition

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

By Michael Y. Bennett Copyright 2018
66 Pages
by Routledge

66 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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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Biography

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