Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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 e…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-351-59953-5
- EAN: 9781351599535
- Produktnummer: 31315005
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 66 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'118 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Michael Y. Bennett is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA.
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