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Preface page xi A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s xiv

Part I Albee’s Life and World 1 C h a p t e r 1 L i f e 3

Chapter 2 Overview: h e h eater of Edward Albee 8 A Full, Dangerous Participation 10 Audience 11 L a n g u a g e 1 3 C o n s c i o u s n e s s 1 4

Chapter 3 Contexts 17 A Search for the Real 19 h e h eatrical Landscape 22 Albee Enters Broadway 23 h e Decentralization of Broadway 25

Part II The Plays 27 Chapter 4 Ritualized Forms of Expiation 29 h e Zoo Story 2 9 h e Death of Bessie Smith 3 7 h e Sandbox 4 3 Fam and Yam 4 6 h e American Dream 4 8

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C h a p t e r 5 C h a l l e n g i n g B r o a d w a y 56 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 5 6 7 2 A Delicate Balance 7 9 Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse- Tung 8 7

C h a p t e r 6 “ h e greatest sin in living is doing it badly – stupidly, or as if you weren’t really alive” 9 3 9 3 9 8 Listening 107 Counting the Ways: A Vaudeville 111

Chapter 7 A Quest for Consciousness 115 h e Lady from Dubuque 115 h e Man Who Had h ree Arms 122 128 132

Chapter 8 As I Lay Dying 136 h ree Tall Women 136 Fragments (A Sit Around) 141 h e Play About the Baby 144 h e Goat or, Who Is Sylvia? (Notes Toward a Dei nition of Tragedy) 149

C h a p t e r 9 A h eater of Loss 157 Occupant 157 Knock! Knock! Who’s h ere!? 161 At Home at the Zoo 162 Me, Myself & I 166

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Part III Dialogues 169

Chapter 10 Critical Reception 171

Epilogue: Final Curtain 177

N o t e s 180 Further Reading 189 Index 193

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