Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-258) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: The man who had three lives / Stephen Bottoms. Borrowed time: an interview with Edward Albee / Philip C. Kolin -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?: toward the marrow / Matthew Roudané -- "Withered age and stale custom": marriage, diminution, and sex in Tiny Alice, A delicate balance, and Finding the sun / John M. Clum -- Albee's 3¹/₂: the Pulitzer plays / Thomas P. Adler -- Albee's threnodies: Box-Mao-box, All over, The lady from Dubuque, and Three tall women / Brenda Murphy -- Minding the play: thought and feeling in Albee's "hermetic" works / Gerry McCarthy -- Albee's monster children: adaptations and confrontations / Stephen Bottoms -- "Better alert than numb": Albee since the eighties / Christopher Bigsby -- Albee stages Marriage play: cascading action, audience taste, and dramatic paradox / Rakesh H. Solomon -- "Playing the cloud circuit": Albee's vaudeville show / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Albee's The goat: rethinking tragedy for the 21st century / J. Ellen Gainor -- "Words; words...they're such a pleasure." (an afterword) / Ruby Cohn -- Borrowed time: an interview with Edward Albee / Stephen Bottoms.
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