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Original Title:	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
ISBN:	0451218590 (ISBN13: 9780451218599)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	George (Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf), Martha (Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf), Nick (Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf), Honey (Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf)
Setting:	United States of America
Literary Awards:	New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play (1963)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

Paperback | Pages: 272 pages

Rating: 4.08 | 58398 Users | 1484 Reviews

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Title	:	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Author	:	Edward Albee
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	August 1st 2006 by NAL (first published January 1st 1962)
Categories	:	Plays. Classics. Drama. Fiction. Theatre

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"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In the same way, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albee's masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening's end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With the play's razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, Newsweek rightly foresaw Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as "a brilliantly original work of art--an excoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks of recognition and dramatic fire [that] will be igniting Broadway for some time to come."

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Holy smokes, this was hard to put down. It's riveting, a little vile, and dramatic to say the least. I'm so excited to talk about it in class this week. I'll probably come back and review it more properly then. Needless to say, this was excellent.

The central theme of this play is living without pretense. It involves 4 characters (and you will hate each of them) who berate each other through three acts. People have always raved to me about it, but I must admit that I can't understand why - rather than being emotionally jarred and on-edge, I felt bored and irritated. Every character is so villianized that there is no "heart" to the play, not a single character one can relate to. It's an interesting piece of literature, but it's definitely

This play makes me squirm with discomfort every time I read it. My mother raised me to be so conscious of manners that I'm practically Southern. Even though George and Martha are just horrible, I can't help cackle at some of the insults they sling. When Martha says that George doesn't have "the stuff," my English Major heart is made happy. It's a totally perfect slam.And who could not admire Albee's daring in using the term "monkey nipples"?

4.5* This play about a dysfunctional couple reads almost as well as it plays on stage. I have seen the film version with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (more than once) & I kept hearing their voices while I was reading.

A three-act play about the illusions that sustain two couples, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf follows the aging George and Martha as they entertain and terrorize the recently married Nick and Honey one night after the end of a university faculty party. The evening starts off on an unpleasant note in the former couple's home, and the situation only further deteriorates as the increasingly intoxicated small group stumbles toward dawn. Albee's acerbic wit is at its strongest here, and in contrast

Procreation is the basic essence of human life. It is for this reason that all human go through all the crossings of life, in hope that when they are no longer in the world, somebody will be there to carry on their legacy forward. But, what happens to a couple who does not have a child? With what, the couple should hope, when the very essence of their being is refused to them. It is this theme which the play Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by the American writer Edward Albee deals with.The play

The song Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? was featured in the Disney short film Three Little Pigs (1933), where two of the pigs are convinced they're safe from the wolf in their straw and twig houses.In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, George and Martha return home from a party with a younger couple, Nick and Honey, and end up downing a drink or two or ten during the night. Nick and Honey can't seem to drag themselves away from the revelling that seems more like a surreal nightmare of