TY - BOOK AU - Bottoms,Stephen J. TI - The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee SN - 0521834554 AV - PS3551.L25 Z596 2005 U1 - 812/.54 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Cambridge, UK, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Albee, Edward, N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-258) and index; Introduction: The man who had three lives; Stephen Bottoms --; Albee's early one-act plays: "A new American playwright from whom much is to be expected"; Philip C. Kolin --; Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?: toward the marrow; Matthew Roudané --; "Withered age and stale custom": marriage, diminution, and sex in Tiny Alice, A delicate balance, and Finding the sun; John M. Clum --; Albee's 3¹/₂: the Pulitzer plays; Thomas P. Adler --; Albee's threnodies: Box-Mao-box, All over, The lady from Dubuque, and Three tall women; Brenda Murphy --; Minding the play: thought and feeling in Albee's "hermetic" works; Gerry McCarthy --; Albee's monster children: adaptations and confrontations; Stephen Bottoms --; "Better alert than numb": Albee since the eighties; Christopher Bigsby --; Albee stages Marriage play: cascading action, audience taste, and dramatic paradox; Rakesh H. Solomon --; "Playing the cloud circuit": Albee's vaudeville show; Linda Ben-Zvi --; Albee's The goat: rethinking tragedy for the 21st century; J. Ellen Gainor --; "Words; words...they're such a pleasure." (an afterword); Ruby Cohn --; Borrowed time: an interview with Edward Albee; Stephen Bottoms; License restrictions may limit access; DELL UR - http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio7916145 ER -