The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee / edited by Stephen Bottoms.
| Other author | Bottoms, Stephen J. (Stephen James), 1968- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
| Description | xxi, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cambridge companions to literature Cambridge companions to literature. ^A326514 |
| Contents | Introduction: The man who had three lives / Stephen Bottoms -- Albee's early one-act plays: "A new American playwright from whom much is to be expected" / Philip C. Kolin -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?: toward the marrow / Matthew Roudan?e -- "Withered age and stale custom": marriage, diminution, and sex in Tiny Alice, A delicate balance, and Finding the sun / John M. Clum -- Albee's 3¹/₂: the Pulitzer plays / Thomas P. Adler -- Albee's threnodies: Box-Mao-box, All over, The lady from Dubuque, and Three tall women / Brenda Murphy -- Minding the play: thought and feeling in Albee's "hermetic" works / Gerry McCarthy -- Albee's monster children: adaptations and confrontations / Stephen Bottoms -- "Better alert than numb": Albee since the eighties / Christopher Bigsby -- Albee stages Marriage play: cascading action, audience taste, and dramatic paradox / Rakesh H. Solomon -- "Playing the cloud circuit": Albee's vaudeville show / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Albee's The goat: rethinking tragedy for the 21st century / J. Ellen Gainor -- "Words; words...they're such a pleasure." (an afterword) / Ruby Cohn -- Borrowed time: an interview with Edward Albee / Stephen Bottoms. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-258) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005046989 |
| ISBN | 0521834554 |
| ISBN | 0521542332 (pbk.) |