Sexuality In Edward Albees Whos Afraid Of Virginia Woolf

Author : Katharina Kirchmayer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640639685
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexuality in Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" written by Katharina Kirchmayer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2, University of Graz (Anglistik), course: Literary Studies II, language: English, abstract: ''I don't want to kiss you, Martha.'' George in Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf This turns out to be quite a significant statement by George in Edward Albee ́s drama Who ́s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, giving an idea of the unemotional and passionless relationship between him and his wife Martha. By investigating the play, many scenes and indication to hidden sexuality can be encountered. In addition to that the lack of communication within the two couples, originating from two different generations, result in a complete incapability of managing their relationships. This paper examines how Edward Albee, by highlighting themes of sexuality, reveals general frustrations in life. Frustrated, unsatisfied marriage is a central theme in Albee's Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf and will be investigated by means of dissecting scenes and certain passage of importance.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004362711
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex, Gender, and Sexualities in Edward Albee's Plays written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, Gender, and Sexualities in the Plays of Edward Albee contains a general introduction and eleven essays by American and European Albee scholars on Albee’s depictions of gender relations, sexual relations, monogamy, child-rearing, and homosexuality.

Author : Nadja Klopsch
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640537750
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family in Edward Albee's Plays 'The Sandbox' and 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' written by Nadja Klopsch and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Department of English and American Studies), course: Modul Specialisation, language: English, abstract: The American dramatist Edward Albee is going to celebrate his 80th birthday these days. In his life he observed several decades of American society as well as changes in attitudes and values of the American population. In almost all of his plays Edward Albee looks at the American family and its various manifestations, criticises it, mocks it, and reveals its dishonesty. His plays frequently contain "the figure of the child which ranges from that of the adopted infant, real or imagined baby, young man, dead child, imaginary person, to that of grown-up homosexual son" (Cristian 1). The figure of the child is often understood as "the alter ego" of Edward Albee (Cristian 6). Shortly afterwards his birth on March 12 1928 Albee was adopted by a wealthy couple. The family was part of the New York high society and tried to bring up their son to be a respectable constituent of this community. Edward Albee sensed early that he was not the couple's biological son. He experienced several conflicts with his parents who disapproved of his lifestyle, interests, sexual orientation and acquaintances. After some years at various boarding schools and colleges, Albee finally and abruptly left home and broke ties with his adoptive parents in 1949. Albee took employment as runner in an advertising agency, sales clerk in a music shop, bookseller-assistant, waiter in convenience restaurant and telegram deliverer for Western Union. His various occupations not only allowed him to write but through his jobs he was able to observe quite a number of different people and lifestyles. In an interview about his plays and the assumed analogousness of his plays he said: "You must remember

Author : Brenda R. Silver
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226757469
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf Icon written by Brenda R. Silver and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proliferation of Virginia Woolfs in both high and popular culture, she argues, has transformed the writer into a "star" whose image and authority are persistently claimed or challenged in debates about art, politics, gender, the canon, class, feminism, and fashion."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Phyllis T. Dircks
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786456590
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edward Albee written by Phyllis T. Dircks and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work covers the canon of playwright Edward Albee, perhaps best known as the author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Comprehensive entries detail the plays and major characters. Other features include biographical information and insights into Albee's artistic beliefs, his understanding of the playwright's responsibility, the importance of music in drama, and the technical craft of writing plays.

Author : Jannis Rudzki-Weise
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640770935
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Truth, Illusion and the American Dream in Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" written by Jannis Rudzki-Weise and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Kassel, course: 20th Century British and American Drama, language: English, abstract: Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” has become one of the major works in American dramatic history (Roundane 42) and a huge career boost for Albee himself. This is not surprising as this masterpiece is considered to be revolutionary and ambitious as well as scandalous and highly controversial at the same time. The play, which has been discussed so passionately, “gives us four almost unrelievably nasty people who for something like three-and-a-half hours [...] take part in a drunken orgy of backbiting, bitchery, humiliation,verbal castration, exposure and physical mauling” (Hilfer 121). Not only wanting to entertain the audience but also including social criticism, Albee makes use of essential themes which help to make people understand their situation and to make them realize the necessity to act in order to modify society. In the course of this paper, I am going to attempt to illustrate the importance of the American Dream and to establish a connection to the topic of truth and illusion which can be understood as the basis of Albee’s concept. To start with, I will exemplify different aspects of the American Dream and point out selected features of the characters that can be linked to the American Dream. In order to appreciate most of the professional criticism, it is of the utmost importance to look at the issue of truth and illusion that is predominant in many parts of the play. Examining the subject matter of illusion, I will concentrate on the imaginary son as well as the relationship between the guests Nick and Honey. In a last step, I am going to explain the issue of truth in the play by examining the killing of the imaginary son and the confession of Nick and his wife. Examining selected scenes, I will try to clarify the aspects Albee criticizes and explain the requests the author has. For many people the ‘American Dream’ is an ethos that grants everybody the opportunity to achieve “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”(Declaration of Independence). The myths of success and virtue seem to be a goal Americans have been striving to achieve for a long time. Dreams can be fulfilled by anybody, no matter the social background, through hard work and determination. Writing the play during the Cold War in 1962, when the world was close to a nuclear war, Albee responded to the questioning of the patriotic beliefs which was an ongoing problem in the USA.

Author : Stephen J. Bottoms
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521635608
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? written by Stephen J. Bottoms and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full study of this major contemporary play, including an interview with Edward Albee.

Author : Stephen Bottoms
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521834551
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee written by Stephen Bottoms and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Albee, perhaps best known for his acclaimed and infamous 1960s drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is one of America's greatest living playwrights. Now in his seventies, he is still writing challenging, award-winning dramas. This collection of essays on Albee, which includes contributions from the leading commentators on Albee's work, brings fresh critical insights to bear by exploring the full scope of the playwright's career, from his 1959 breakthrough with The Zoo Story to his recent Broadway success, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (2002). The contributors include scholars of both theatre and English literature, and the essays thus consider the plays both as literary texts and as performed drama. The collection considers a number of Albee's lesser-known and neglected works, provides a comprehensive introduction and overview, and includes an exclusive, original interview with Mr Albee, on topics spanning his whole career.

Author : Edward Albee
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 0822223171
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo written by Edward Albee and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you emerge from this impish comic playwright's glittering tribute to Molière, written entirely in verse, your head will be so dizzy with syncopated rhyme that you'll almost expect to find yourself speaking and thinking in chiming couplets...[Ives] add The truism that families come in all shapes and sizes is illuminated with haunting beauty...in this exquisitely wrought comedy-drama...a piercing portrait of the contemporary social architecture, in which the distance between people can be widened or collaps

Author : Kate Scelsa
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822240327
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyone's Fine with Virginia Woolf written by Kate Scelsa and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharp-witted parody of a celebrated American drama, EVERYONE’S FINE WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF is, in turns, loving homage and fierce feminist takedown. Kate Scelsa’s incisive and hilarious reinvention of Edward Albee’s classic Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? slyly subverts the power dynamics of the original play’s not-so-happy couple. In the end, no one will be left unscathed by the ferocity of Martha’s revenge on an unsuspecting patriarchy.