Edward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator

David A. Crespy, Ph.D. (1998), is Professor of Playwriting, Acting, and Dramatic literature at the University of Missouri. He founded MU's Writing for Performance program and serves as the program’s co-director and as the president of the Edward Albee Society. Lincoln Konkle, Ph.D. (1991), is Professor of English at The College of New Jersey where he teaches and publishes on dramatic literature. He is author of Thornton Wilder and The Puritan Narrative Tradition and co-founder of the Albee Society.

Notes 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

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