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Monster Essays - 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
overpraise and underpraise, his 27 plays have earned will even out in the
end — ....
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