The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee

With the death of Arthur Miller, Edward Albee (b. 1928) is one of the most distinguished of living American dramatists. Albee is chiefly known for The Zoo Story (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) and Tiny Alice (1964), amongst other work. President Clinton, speaking at the Kennedy Center's honours awarding ceremony of 1996, commented appropriately:

Stephen Bottoms' collection contains 14 essays focusing on differing facets of Albee's life and achievement. Bottoms, Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds, has three contributions. In the first, “Introduction: the man who had three lives”, he writes succinctly on...