Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Fourth Wall) - Softcover

Buch 15 von 22: The Fourth Wall

Bennett, Michael Y.

 
9781138097421: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Fourth Wall)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 113809742X ISBN 13: 9781138097421
Verlag: Routledge, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
113809742X
ISBN 13 
9781138097421
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Anzahl der Seiten
68
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