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FURTHER READING

Atkinson, Brooks. "Village Vagrants."The New York Times (31 January 1960): III. 1.

Review of The Zoo Story that finds the play "original and engrossing" but considers the ending "conventional melodrama."

Matthews, Honor. "The Disappearance of the Image in England and America." In The Primal Curse: The Myth of Cain and Abel in the Theatre, pp. 187-205. London: Chatto and Windus, 1967.

Includes a discussion of The Zoo Story. Matthews views the story of Jerry and Peter a "twisted" version of the Cain and Abel tale, for in Albee's play "the agressor throws down the knife at his victim's feet, and himself … achieves before death a transient fulfillment and peace."

Way, Brian. "Albee and the Absurd: The 'American Dream' and 'The Zoo Story'." In American Theatre, ed. John Russell Brown and Bernard Harris, pp. 189-207. London: Edward Arnold, 1967.

Examines the conflict between realism...

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