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Cambridge University Press 0521542332 - The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee Edited by Stephen Bottoms Table of Contents More information CONTENTS List of illustrations page ix Notes on contributors xi Acknowledgments xv Notes on the text xvi Chronology xvii 1 Introduction: The man who had three lives 1 stephen bottoms 2 Albee’s early one-act plays: “A new American playwright from whom much is to be expected” 16 philip c. kolin 3 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Toward the marrow 39 matthew roudane´ 4 “Withered age and stale custom”: Marriage, diminution, and sex in Tiny Alice, A Delicate Balance, and Finding the Sun 59 john m. clum 1 5 Albee’s 3 /2: The Pulitzer plays 75 thomas p. adler 6 Albee’s threnodies: Box-Mao-Box, All Over, The Lady from Dubuque, and Three Tall Women 91 brenda murphy 7 Minding the play: Thought and feeling in Albee’s “hermetic” works 108 gerry mccarthy vii © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521542332 - The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee Edited by Stephen Bottoms Table of Contents More information contents 8 Albee’s monster children: Adaptations and confrontations 127 stephen bottoms 9 “Better alert than numb”: Albee since the eighties 148 christopher bigsby 10 Albee stages Marriage Play: Cascading action, audience taste, and dramatic paradox 164 rakesh h. solomon 11 “Playing the cloud circuit”: Albee’s vaudeville show 178 linda ben-zvi 12 Albee’s The Goat: Rethinking tragedy for the 21st century 199 j. ellen gainor 13 “Words; words...They’re such a pleasure.” (An Afterword) 217 ruby cohn 14 Borrowed time: An interview with Edward Albee 231 stephen bottoms Notes on further reading 251 Select bibliography 253 Index 259 viii © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org.

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Bibliography Abbott, S.J., Walter M., ed. The Documents of Vatican II. New York: America Press, 1966. Albee, Edward. Two Plays by Edward Albee: The American Dream and The Zoo Story. New York: Plume, 1959 and 1960. Albee, Edward. “Which Theatre Is the Absurd One?” The New York Times, 25 February (1962): SM11. Albee, Edward. “Which Theatre is the Absurd One?” New York Times Magazine. 25 February, 1962: 30, 31, 64. Albee, Edward. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? New York: Signet, 1962. Albee, Edward. The American Dream and The Zoo Story. New York: Penguin, 1963. Albee, Edward. A Delicate Balance. New York: Overlook Press, 1966. Albee, Edward. Seascape: A Play. New York: Atheneum, 1975. Albee, Edward. “Preface.” The American Dream and The Zoo Story. New York: Penguin, 1997, 7–9. Albee, Edward. Tiny Alice. Rev. ed. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 2001. Albee, Edward. “Interview.” March 2002 <http://www.swisseduc.ch/english/readinglist/ albeee/goat.html>. Albee, Edward. The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Notes toward a definition of tragedy). Wood- stock, NY: Overlook Press, 2003. Albee, Edward. Collected Plays of Edward Albee, Volume 1: 1958–1965. London: Overlook- Duckworth 2004. Albee, Edward. Collected Plays of Edward Albee, Volume 2: 1966–1977. London: Overlook- Duckworth 2004. Albee, Edward. The Death of Bessie Smith. In The Collected Plays of Edward Albee. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2004. Albee, Edward, “Interview: Edward Albee ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’” New York City: 2 June 2005. Academy of Achievement. <http://www.achievement.org/ autodoc/printmember/alb1int-1>. Albee, Edward. “Which Theatre is the Absurd One?” in Edward Albee, Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays 1960 to 2005.
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