文档介绍:后现代主义论文(英文版)
A Brief Introduction to Edward Albee
Edward Franklin Albee III was born on March 12, 1928. According to Magill's Survey of American Literature (2007), Edward Albee was born somewhere in Virginia (the popular belief is that he was born in Washington, .). He was adopted two weeks later and taken to Larchmont, New York in Westchester County, where he grew up. Albee's adoptive father, Reed A. Albee, the wealthy son of vaudeville magnate Edward Franklin Albee II, owned several theaters. Here the young Edward first gained familiarity with the theatre as a child.
Edward Albee is the most important contemporary American playwright of the "absurd". His plays on the absurdity of human life built very much on a frail illusion and spiritual emptiness. Albee's major success is Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - a three act play about a night of drunken verbal conflict between a middle-aged professor and his wife, in which a state of compassion is finally achieved after the" death" of their imaginary child. Albee's other important plays include The Zoo Story, The American Dream, and Tiny Alice. The American Dream expressed disenchantment with American middle-class values through the description of the appalling relationship of a family members. Tiny Alice is the story of a rich woman who seduces a Catholic lay brother into marriage and then
murders him.
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