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

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

by Michael Bennett (Author), Michael Bennett (Author), Michael Y. Bennett (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 68
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11 Jul 2018

ISBN 10: 113809742X
ISBN 13: 9781138097421

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