Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Author | : Edward Albee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2000-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783150090732 |
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Author | : Edward Albee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2000-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783150090732 |
Author | : Edward Albee |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2006-08-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0451218590 |
A bitter marriage unravels in Edward Albee's darkly humorous play—winner of the Tony Award for Best Play. “Twelve times a week,” answered actress Uta Hagen when asked how often she’d like to play Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In the same way, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albee’s masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening’s end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With its razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, Newsweek rightly foresaw Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as “a brilliantly original work of art—an excoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks of recognition and dramatic fire [that] will be igniting Broadway for some time to come.”
Author | : Edward Albee |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780822212492 |
THE STORY: George, a professor at a small college, and his wife, Martha, have just returned home, drunk from a Saturday night party. Martha announces, amidst general profanity, that she has invited a young couple--an opportunistic new professor at t
Author | : Christopher Hudson |
Publisher | : Longman Group |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780582023215 |
George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, have just come home from a faculty party. When a handsome young professor and his mousy wife stop by for a nightcap, an innocent night of fun and games quickly turns dark and dangerous. Long-buried resentment and rage are unleashed as George and Martha turn their rapier-sharp wits against each other, using their guests as pawns in their verbal sparring. By night's end, the secrets of both couples are uncovered and the lies they cling to are exposed. Considered by many to be Albee's masterpiece, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is a "brilliantly original work of art -- an excoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks of recognition and dramatic fire" ("Newsweek").
Author | : Michael Y. Bennett |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2018-07-11 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1351599526 |
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.
Author | : Edward Albee |
Publisher | : Scribner Book Company |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2003-07-29 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, have just come home from a faculty party. When a handsome young professor and his mousy wife stop by for a nightcap, an innocent night of fun and games quickly turns dark and dangerous. Long-buried resentment and rage are unleashed as George and Martha turn their rapier-sharp wits against each other, using their guests as pawns in their verbal sparring. By night's end, the secrets of both couples are uncovered and the lies they cling to are exposed. Considered by many to be Albee's masterpiece, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a "brilliantly original work of art -- an excoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks of recognition and dramatic fire" (Newsweek).
Author | : Stephen Bottoms |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2005-07-21 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521834551 |
Edward Albee, perhaps best known for his acclaimed and infamous 1960s drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is one of America's greatest living playwrights. Now in his seventies, he is still writing challenging, award-winning dramas. This collection of essays on Albee, which includes contributions from the leading commentators on Albee's work, brings fresh critical insights to bear by exploring the full scope of the playwright's career, from his 1959 breakthrough with The Zoo Story to his recent Broadway success, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (2002). The contributors include scholars of both theatre and English literature, and the essays thus consider the plays both as literary texts and as performed drama. The collection considers a number of Albee's lesser-known and neglected works, provides a comprehensive introduction and overview, and includes an exclusive, original interview with Mr Albee, on topics spanning his whole career.
Author | : Edward Albee |
Publisher | : Richmond Hill, Ont. : Pocket Books of Canada |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : |
Play depicting present-day life on the campus of a small New England college.
Author | : Irene Coates |
Publisher | : Soho Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2003-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781569472941 |
Was Virginia Woolf suicidal, or was she betrayed and driven to taking her own life? Irene Coates argues, with forensic precision, that Leonard Woolf was responsible for the unraveling of his wife's sanity and her subsequent suicide. These two people were at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group; one a mad genius, the other a so-called selfless husband. But underneath that caring veneer beat the heart of a pessimistic, repressed, bullying, and hypocritical man, one who may have been responsible for the death of Virginia Woolf
Author | : Matthew Charles Roudané |
Publisher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, Masterwork Studies are guides to the literary works most frequently studied in high school. Presenting ideas that spark imaginations, these books help students to gain background knowledge on great literature useful for papers and exams. The goal of each study is to encourage creative thinking by presenting engaging information about each work and its author. This approach allows students to arrive at sound analyses of their own, based on in-depth studies of popular literature. Each volume: -- Illuminates themes and concepts of a classic text -- Uses clear, conversational language -- Is an accessible, manageable length from 140 to 170 pages -- Includes a chronology of the author's life and era -- Provides an overview of the historical context -- Offers a summary of its critical reception -- Lists primary and secondary sources and index