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The Life Of Edward Albee - Online Term Paper

The Life Of Edward Albee

“The best American playwright since Arthur Miller." A master of ‘
depraved obscenity.' An unflinching dissector of dysfunction. A willfully
abstract audience-basher.”
For about four decades, critics and theater-watchers have been
calling Edward Albee names. His harsh wit and language and amazing endings
have won him three Pulitzer Prizes and cost him a fourth. Once off-
Broadway's leading light, Albee lasted for a close to 20-year drought
before capturing his most recent Pulitzer, in 1994.
Albee can handle it. He thinks that the acclaim and neglect, the
overpraise and underpraise, his 27 plays have earned will even out in the
end — as long as he doesn't screw-up his thoughts ...

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schools at age 11.
At Trinity, "I discovered that the required courses were not the
ones I required." So he cut the classes that bored him and audited the ones
that didn't.
"It tells you something about the management of Trinity at the time
that they didn't catch up with me until the middle of the sophomore year,"
he recalls. "That ended my formal education, and I suppose it didn't matter
much. I'd figured out how to educate myself, and keep on doing it. To be
fair to Trinity, I would have been unhappy at any college or university."
Albee was even more unhappy when his adoptive mother ejected him
from the family mansion for homosexuality. He moved to Greenwich Village,
surviving as a luncheonette counterman, office boy and telegraph messenger,
and devouring the Absurdist plays of Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Beckett. His
favorite gig was at Western Union. "I didn't use my mind at all, and
walking around the Upper West Side was good exercise."
As a 30th birthday present to ...

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Added: 5/31/2006 09:10:44 AM
Category: Book Reports
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