Edward Albee's Marriage Play by Edward Albee

Edward Albee's Marriage Play by Edward Albee

This volume sets out to provide the facts concerning Nerval's publication of the collected volume, Les Illumines, including his reasons for doing so at this juncture in his career, and gives outlines of the six previously published pieces Nerval collected together in 1852 to make up the volume. The responses to Les Illumines are assessed on two fronts, with analysis of the critical reviews of Nerval's new text after its publication, and comment on editions and relevant scholorship up to the present day. The collection's intriguing preface, La Biblotheque de mon oncle, is revealed here as a key element for critical readings of the work. Tyer's detailed research invites a reappraisal of Les Illumines, which is not thought on par with the rest of Nerval's mature writing. Yet the fragmentary structures and varying themes are shown, on closer investigation, to invite synthetic and comparative readings of the text as a complete whole.

Edward Albee is one of a handful of our country's most important living playwrights. He has won numerous awards, including three Pulitzer Prizes (A Delicate Balance, Seascape, and Three Tall Women) and three Tony Awards (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Delicate Balance, and The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?). In 1996 he received a Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award and was presented with the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton.

At the Kennedy Center Honors Ceremony, Albee was praised for his impact on American drama: Albee's plays, with their intensity, their grappling with modern themes, and their experiments in form, startled critics and audiences alike while changing the landscape of American drama.

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ISBN 13	9780822214229
ISBN 10	0822214229
Title	Edward Albee's Marriage Play
Author	Edward Albee
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dramatists Play Service
Year published	1995-01-01
Number of pages	41
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