Edward Albee and the Emergence of Difference and Diversity in US and World Theatre: 1950s-1970s [Hardcover]

Introduction

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PART I: Albee & LGBTQ Theatre & Performance, Ageism, and Latinx Drama

Chapter 1. The New Conservatory Theatre Story: Activist Action Moments in Progressive Theatres of Identity

Chapter 2. Reviving Medusas Revenge, New York Citys First Lesbian Theater Space

Chapter 3. Different Rewards: Queer Gerontological Models in the Dramaturgy of Edward Albee, Terrence McNally, and Lanford Wilson

Chapter 4. The Making of an American Master Playwright: A History of Lanford Wilsons Home Free! and the Albee-Barr-Wilder Playwrights Unit

Chapter 5. Whatever happened to Grandma?: Women and Aging in Edward Albees? The Sandbox (1960) and The American Dream (1961)

Chapter 6. I know this game, you're playing. I know it very well: Albee as Influence and Counterpoint to Crowleys The Boys in the Band

Chapter 7. Albee, Forn?s, and the Next Generation of Grotesque Theater

PART II: Albee and the?Emergence?of African-American Theatre

Chapter 8. Staging Politics of the Black Blues Bodies: Edward Albees The Death of Bessie Smith in Conversation with August Wilsons Ma Raineys Black Bottom

Chapter 9. Visited by a Phantom: Adrienne Kennedys Funnyhouse Encounter with Edward Albee

Chapter 10.?The Emergence of Identity and Protest through the Rhetorical Genre of American Absurdism?

Chapter 11. I am an American Writer Too: James Blã!