The Collected Plays of Edward Albee: Volume 3 1978 - 2003 - Hardcover

Albee, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585677779 ISBN 13: 9781585677771

Publisher: Abrams Press, 2006

Synopsis

Included are some of Albee s most iconoclastic and influential plays, including his adaptation of Nabokov's masterpiece Lolita; The Man Who Had Three Arms, an indictment of the abuse of critical power; three shorter plays, Finding the Sun, Marriage Play, and Fragments, all hailed as triumphs of innovative dramaturgy; Occupant, a touching homage to, and a striking portrait of, Albee's longtime friend, the sculptor Louise Nevelson; as well as The Play About the Baby, Knock! Knock! Who s There!, and The Goat, or Who is Sylvia, a trilogy of plays that brought Albee the kind of critical and popular acclaim he enjoyed early in his career after years of neglect by the theater establishment.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Following the publication of the first two acclaimed volumes of this series, comes The Collected Plays of Edward Albee: Volume Three, bringing readers up to date with the works of a true American master playwright. This volume contains some of Albee's most iconoclastic and influential plays, including his adaptation of Nabakov's Lolita; The Man Who Had Three Arms, an indictment of the abuse of critical power; three shorter plays, Finding the Sun, Marriage Play, and Fragments, all hailed as triumphs. The Collected Plays of Edward Albee: Volume Three represents one of the most varied and brilliant periods in the career of one of America's most popular amd imaginative playwrights.

About the Author:

Edward Albee (1928-2016), his plays include The Zoo Story (1958), The American Dream (1960), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961–62, Tony Award), Tiny Alice (1964), A Delicate Balance (1966, Pulitzer Prize, and Tony Award, 1996), Seascape (1974, Pulitzer Prize, also available from Overlook), Three Tall Women (1994, Pulitzer Prize), and The Play About the Baby (2001, also available from Overlook). He was awarded the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1980, and in 1996 he received both the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abrams Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1585677779
• ISBN 13: 9781585677771
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 656