ESSAY ON PASSAGES FROM PLAYS BY EDWARD ALBEE
AMERICAN LITERATURE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
ESSAY ON PASSAGES FROM PLAYS BY EDWARD ALBEE
Preface: Sources
Passage one and passage two are from Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I read the whole play at http://ebookbrowsee.net/who-s-afraid-of-virginia-woolf-the-full-text-pdf-d466659706 Passage three is from the play The American Dream by Edward Albee, which I read at http://99ebook.com/the-american-dream-edward-albee-full-text/ Caparison one is from Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire. I read the whole play at http://www.theactingprofessor.com/downloads/files/A%20STREETCAR%20NAMED%20DESIRE.pdf
The second comparison is from Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, which I read at http://cc.usst.edu.cn/Download/c849567f-a9d0-4250-9b4f-db3b7f3670ed.pdf
General Introduction to the Author. Edward Albee is an American playwright who was born on March 12, 1928 in Washington, DC. He was adopted in infancy by millionaire Reed Albee, the son of a famous vaudeville producer who introduced Edward to the theater at an early age. Albee’s stepmother wanted him to become a respectable member of the high society, while all he wanted was to spend his time with the artists and the intellectuals of the theaters. As a result, he battled his stepmother a lot throughout his childhood. Edward hated school, during his youth he left or was expelled from several schools and from the university. In 1945, his poem “Eighteen” was published in a Texas literary magazine, which serves to show that even in his teenage years, he was a talented writer. Albee left his home and parents, of which he never became too fond, and moved to New York City to pursue his writing career. There he met the writer Thornton Wilder, who encouraged him to begin writing plays. Edward supported himself by doing all kinds of jobs like being messenger boy, selling records, and writing music programming for a radio station.
In 1958, Albee finishes his
ESSAY ON PASSAGES FROM PLAYS BY EDWARD ALBEE
Preface: Sources
Passage one and passage two are from Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I read the whole play at http://ebookbrowsee.net/who-s-afraid-of-virginia-woolf-the-full-text-pdf-d466659706 Passage three is from the play The American Dream by Edward Albee, which I read at http://99ebook.com/the-american-dream-edward-albee-full-text/ Caparison one is from Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire. I read the whole play at http://www.theactingprofessor.com/downloads/files/A%20STREETCAR%20NAMED%20DESIRE.pdf
The second comparison is from Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, which I read at http://cc.usst.edu.cn/Download/c849567f-a9d0-4250-9b4f-db3b7f3670ed.pdf
General Introduction to the Author. Edward Albee is an American playwright who was born on March 12, 1928 in Washington, DC. He was adopted in infancy by millionaire Reed Albee, the son of a famous vaudeville producer who introduced Edward to the theater at an early age. Albee’s stepmother wanted him to become a respectable member of the high society, while all he wanted was to spend his time with the artists and the intellectuals of the theaters. As a result, he battled his stepmother a lot throughout his childhood. Edward hated school, during his youth he left or was expelled from several schools and from the university. In 1945, his poem “Eighteen” was published in a Texas literary magazine, which serves to show that even in his teenage years, he was a talented writer. Albee left his home and parents, of which he never became too fond, and moved to New York City to pursue his writing career. There he met the writer Thornton Wilder, who encouraged him to begin writing plays. Edward supported himself by doing all kinds of jobs like being messenger boy, selling records, and writing music programming for a radio station.
In 1958, Albee finishes his