From Tension to Tonic: The Plays of Edward Albee

by Anne Paolucci

Book Overview

The first serious contemporary dramatist to come from off-Broad­way and successfully break through the financial barriers and strict proscriptions of commercial American theatre, Albee is also the first, if not the only one, of his generation to have tried out successfully such diverse dramatic forms as naturalism, surrealism, symbolism, farce, tragicomedy, and meta­physical allegory. In the decade since Who's Afraid of Virginia...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809305518
• ISBN13: 9780809305513
• Release Date: February 1972
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 8.3"