Loading...

The Fourth Wall - Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Michael Y. Bennett

  • Bindwijze: E-book
  • Taal: en
  • Categorie: Kunst & Fotografie
  • ISBN: 9781351599528
Inhoud
Taal:en
Bindwijze:E-book
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:11 juli 2018
Ebook Formaat:Adobe ePub
Illustraties:Nee
Betrokkenen
Hoofdauteur:Michael Y. Bennett
Hoofdauteur:Michael Y. Bennett
Lees mogelijkheden
Lees dit ebook op:Android (smartphone en tablet) , Kobo e-reader , Desktop (Mac en Windows) , iOS (smartphone en tablet) , Windows (smartphone en tablet)
Overige kenmerken
Editie:1
Studieboek:Nee
Overige kenmerken
Editie:1
Studieboek:Nee

Samenvatting

Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? shocked audiences and critics alike with its assault on decorum. At base though, the play is simply a love story: an examination of a long-wedded life, filled with the hopes, dreams, disappointments, and pain that accompany the passing of many years together.

While the ethos of the play is tragicomic, it is the anachronistic, melodramatic secret object—the nonexistent "son"—that upends the audience’s sense of theatrical normalcy. The mean and vulgar bile spewed among the characters hides these elements, making it feel like something entirely "new."

As Michael Y. Bennett reveals, the play is the same emperor, just wearing new clothes. In short, it is straight out of the grand tradition of living room drama: Ibsen, Chekhov, Glaspell, Hellmann, O’Neill, Wilder, Miller, Williams, and Albee.