Edward Albee: A Research and Production Sourcebook

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This volume documents the life and works of the acclaimed playwright, Edward Albee. His first four plays were all produced Off Broadway from 1960-1961, creating buzz that he was an up-and-coming avant-garde playwright. But his most notable accomplishment came a year later with his first full-length play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. His plays were linked with the philosophies of the European absurdists, Beckett and Ionesco, and the American traditional social criticism of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Eugene O'Neill. Intended to serve as a quick reference guide and an exhaustive resource, this collection includes play synopses and critical overviews, production histories and credits, and locator suggestions on unpublished archival material and lists of texts/anthologies that have published Albee's material. The two secondary bibliographies contained within are fully annotated chronologically and alphabetically with the year of publication, presenting a fuller sense of Albee's playwriting career.

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Horn's thorough and convenient guide serves as both a quick reference for students and a complete resource for scholars....Broad in scope, covering Albee's works from 1958 to 2002, Horn's bibliography collects and organizes existing critical writings about Albee....Recommended. Academic and general readers.-Choice
"Horn's thorough and convenient guide serves as both a quick reference for students and a complete resource for scholars....Broad in scope, covering Albee's works from 1958 to 2002, Horn's bibliography collects and organizes existing critical writings about Albee....Recommended. Academic and general readers."-Choice

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BARBARA LEE HORN is Professor, Dept. of Speech, Communication Sciences, and Theatre, St. John's University.