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Collected Plays of Edward Albee, Volume 2: 1966-77

Name: Collected Plays of Edward Albee, Volume 2: 1966-77
Author: Edward Albee
ISBN: 9781585676170

by Edward Albee

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Overview

Following the release of the first volume of Edward Albee's collected plays, Overlook is thrilled to present Volume 2 of the three-volume collection of Albee's work. Volume 2 contains the nine plays written by Albee during the period of 1966 through 1977. These range from the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Delicate Balance to the brilliant and complex short plays Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung.

An introduction by Albee accompanies the plays, providing bold new insights into these works.

Synopsis

These range from the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Delicate Balance to the brilliant and complex short plays Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung to his second Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Seascape, to the scintillating one-act comedy Counting the Ways (recently revived off-Broadway to great acclaim), Everything in the Garden, All Over, Listening, and closing with the controversial Lady from Dubuque (hailed by Time magazine as a major work Albee's best since Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ).The volume includes an introduction by Edward Albee, providing new insights into these works.

About the Author, Edward Albee

Edward Albee, the American dramatist, was born in 1928. He has written and directed some of the best plays in contemporary American theatre and three of his plays: A Delicate Balance, Seascape and Three Tall Women have received Pulitzer Prizes. His most famous play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. His other plays include The Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, The American Dream, Tiny Alice, All Over, Listening, The Lady from Dubuque, The Man Who Had Three Arms, Finding the Sun, Fragments, Marriage Play and The Lorca Play.