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

Bennett, Michael Y.

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ISBN 10: 113809742X ISBN 13: 9781138097421

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2018

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

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

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 113809742X
• ISBN 13: 9781138097421
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 68
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania