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 am ....
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.... slim, tweedy, with a patrician accent and looking a bit
younger than 70, Albee would have changed his own sad past if he could. An
orphan raised in chauffeured luxury, Edward was packed off to the first of
three boarding schools at age 11.
At Trinity, "I discovered that the required courses were not the
ones I required." So he cut the classes that bored him and audited the ones
that didn't.
"It tells you something about the management of Trinity at the time
that they didn't catch up ....
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