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Author : Edward Albee
Release : 2000-01
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Book Rating : 732/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by : Edward Albee
Download or read book Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? written by Edward Albee. This book was released on 2000-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Y. Bennett
Release : 2018-07-11
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 526/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by : Michael Y. Bennett
Download or read book Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? written by Michael Y. Bennett. This book was released on 2018-07-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Steve Waters
Release : 2017
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 429/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Limehouse by : Steve Waters
Download or read book Limehouse written by Steve Waters. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A divisive left-wing leader at the helm of the Labour Party. A Conservative prime minister battling with her cabinet. An identity crisis on a national scale. This is Britain 1981. One Sunday morning, four prominent Labour politicians - Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and David Owen - gather in private at Owen's home in Limehouse, East London. They are desperate to find a political alternative. Should they split their party, divide their loyalties, and risk betraying everything they believe in? Would they be starting afresh, or destroying forever the tradition that nurtured them? Steve Waters' thrilling drama takes us behind closed doors to imagine the personal conflicts behind the making of political history. Limehouse premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in 2017, directed by Polly Findlay. It is a fictionalised account of real events, and it is not endorsed by the individuals portrayed.
Author : Matthew Charles Roudané
Release : 1990
Genre : Drama
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Book Synopsis Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by : Matthew Charles Roudané
Download or read book Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? written by Matthew Charles Roudané. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Author : Stephen Bottoms
Release : 2005-07-21
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 551/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee by : Stephen Bottoms
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee written by Stephen Bottoms. This book was released on 2005-07-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
