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Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
・ISBN 978-1-138-09742-1 paper GB£ 13.99
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| 著者・編者 | Bennett, Michael Y., |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | (The Fourth Wall) |
| 出版社 | (Routledge, UK) |
| 出版年月 | 2018 |
| ページ数 | 56 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A00-39448＞ |
解説
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? shocked audiences and critics alike with its assault on decorum. At base though, the play is simply a love story: an examination of a long-wedded life, filled with the hopes, dreams, disappointments, and pain that accompany the passing of many years together.
While the ethos of the play is tragicomic, it is the anachronistic, melodramatic secret object-the nonexistent "son"-that upends the audience's sense of theatrical normalcy. The mean and vulgar bile spewed among the characters hides these elements, making it feel like something entirely "new."
As Michael Y. Bennett reveals, the play is the same emperor, just wearing new clothes. In short, it is straight out of the grand tradition of living room drama: Ibsen, Chekhov, Glaspell, Hellmann, O'Neill, Wilder, Miller, Williams, and Albee.