Three Tall Women | Combining Absurdist Drama with Realism
In this essay, Glenn examines
how Edward Albee combines elements of absurdist
drama with realism in Three Tall Women.
As much as anything else, the popular success of Edward Albee’s 1994 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Three Tall Women can be attributed to the fickleness of American scholars and theater reviewers.
As numerous articles and interviews pointed out during the show’s lengthy New York run, Albee was once the darling of the American Theater scene. In the early 1960s he was hailed as the next Eugene O’Neill and was considered a literary genius of the age.
He quickly fell out of favor, however, and for more than twenty years his plays received only lukewarm, or...
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