Edward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39470-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies

Edward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator offers eight essays and a major interview by important scholars in the field that explore this three-time Pulitzer prize-winning playwright’s innovations as a dramatist and theatrical artist. They consider not only Albee’s award-winning plays and his contributions to the evolution of modern American drama, but also his important influence to the American theatre as a whole, his connections to art and music, and his international influence in Spanish and Russian theatre.

Contributors: Jackson R. Bryer, Milbre Burch, David A. Crespy, Ramon Espejo-Romero, Nathan Hedman, Lincoln Konkle, Julia Listengarten, David Marcia, Ashley Raven, Parisa Shams, Valentine Vasak

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Crespy, David A.

Konkle, Lincoln

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Editors’ Introduction

David A. Crespy and Lincoln Konkle

Designing Edward/Edward Designing: A Brief History of Edward Albee’s Role in Theatrical Design

David A. Crespy

Theatrical Thanatology: Direct Address, Gestural Storytelling, and the Triple Goddess in Three Plays about Dying by Edward Albee

Milbre Burch

The Glee of Vulnerability: Becoming Kin with Edward Albee’s Goat

Parisa Shams

A Queer Reading of Love in Edward Albee’s Counting the Ways

Ashley Raven

Albee Stages Secular Epiphany

Nathan Hedman

Art Is a Hammer: Aura, Textual Awareness, and Comedy in Albee

David Marcia

Affecting the Lives of “Others”: The Journey of Albee’s Plays in the Soviet Union

Julia Listengarten

The (Mis)Representation of Edward Albee in Spain, 1963–2010

Ramón Espejo Romero

Inside the Black Box: Albee’s Visual Aesthetics of Obscurity

Valentine Vasak

“I Trap People”: An Interview with Edward Albee

Jackson R. Bryer

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

David A. Crespy, Ph.D. (1998), is Professor of Playwriting, Acting, and Dramatic literature at the University of Missouri. He founded MU's Writing for Performance program and serves as the program’s co-director and as the president of the Edward Albee Society.

Lincoln Konkle, Ph.D. (1991), is Professor of English at The College of New Jersey where he teaches and publishes on dramatic literature. He is author of Thornton Wilder and The Puritan Narrative Tradition and co-founder of the Albee Society.