Edward Albee

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Focusing on the life and works of Edward Albee, this volume explores his rise as an avant-garde playwright, beginning with the successful Off Broadway productions of his first four plays from 1960-1961. It highlights his most significant achievement, the full-length play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", while also examining the influences of European absurdists like Beckett and Ionesco, alongside the social critiques of American playwrights such as Miller, Williams, and O'Neill.