Essay Archive - The Life of Edward Albee
The Life of Edward Albee
“The best American playwright since Arthur Miller." A master of ‘
depraved obscenity.' An unflinching dissector of dysfunction. A willfully
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
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