The Goat (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edward Albee
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Plot: Absurdist
- Time of Work: The early twenty-first century
- Setting: Inside an American suburban home and a farm in the Midwest
- Principal Characters: Martin, Stevie, Billy, Ross
- Genres: Drama, Absurdist literature, Dark comedy
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Marriage, American Dream, Adultery, Morality or morals, Middle age, Animals, Scandal, Architecture or architects, Livestock
- Locales: Midwest (U.S.)
The Play
The play The Goat begins during the week in which Martin, a successful architect who is happily married and the father of a college-age son, turns fifty. In the same week, the audience learns, Martin has also received the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize in architecture, the Pritzger Prize, and, in addition, he has just been commissioned to design a multibillion-dollar city of the future to be erected in the fields of the Midwest. Martin’s oldest friend Ross, a television journalist, is about to tape an at-home interview with Martin in his tasteful abode....
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