The Collected Plays of Edward Albee, Volume 2: 1966-1977 - Softcover

Albee, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590200535 ISBN 13: 9781590200537

Publisher: Abrams Press, 2008

Synopsis

These range from the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Delicate Balance to the brilliant and complex short plays Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung to his second Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Seascape, to the scintillating one-act comedy Counting the Ways (recently revived off-Broadway to great acclaim), Everything in the Garden, All Over, Listening, and closing with the controversial Lady from Dubuque (hailed by Time magazine as a major work Albee's best since Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ).The volume includes an introduction by Edward Albee, providing new insights into these works.

About this title

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.

Review:

"A major playwright who helped to change the shape of contemporary drama here and abroad." -- Vincent Canby, The New York Times

The second volume of complete plays from "one of the few genuinely great living American dramatists" -- Ben Brantley, The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Abrams Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1590200535
• ISBN 13: 9781590200537
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672