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The Life Of Edward Albee
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“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 ....
Middle of essay ....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 him.... |
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