{"product_id":"edward-albee-as-theatrical-and-dramatic-innovator-9789004394704","title":"Edward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator offers eight essays and a major interview by important scholars in the field that explore this three-time Pulitzer prize-winning playwright’s innovations as a dramatist and theatrical artist. They consider not only Albee’s award-winning plays and his contributions to the evolution of modern American drama, but also his important influence to the American theatre as a whole, his connections to art and music, and his international influence in Spanish and Russian theatre.    Contributors: Jackson R. Bryer, Milbre Burch, David A. Crespy, Ramon Espejo-Romero, Nathan Hedman, Lincoln Konkle, Julia Listengarten, David Marcia, Ashley Raven, Parisa Shams, Valentine Vasak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors  Editors’ Introduction   David A. Crespy and Lincoln Konkle  Designing Edward\/Edward Designing: A Brief History of Edward Albee’s Role in Theatrical Design   David A. Crespy  Theatrical Thanatology: Direct Address, Gestural Storytelling, and the Triple Goddess in Three Plays about Dying by Edward Albee   Milbre Burch  The Glee of Vulnerability: Becoming Kin with Edward Albee’s Goat   Parisa Shams  A Queer Reading of Love in Edward Albee’s Counting the Ways   Ashley Raven  Albee Stages Secular Epiphany   Nathan Hedman  Art Is a Hammer: Aura, Textual Awareness, and Comedy in Albee   David Marcia  Affecting the Lives of “Others”: The Journey of Albee’s Plays in the Soviet Union   Julia Listengarten  The (Mis)Representation of Edward Albee in Spain, 1963–2010   Ramón Espejo Romero  Inside the Black Box: Albee’s Visual Aesthetics of Obscurity   Valentine Vasak  “I Trap People”: An Interview with Edward Albee   Jackson R. Bryer  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210771226967,"sku":"9789004394704","price":98.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/edward-albee-as-theatrical-and-dramatic-innovator-9789004394704","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}