Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Religion and Wordplay
In this brief article, Carter explains how the play's religious imagery and its wordplay interact.
Most critics of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? are mindful of the play's rich array of religious signifiers, from Martha's deified father (George: "He's a god, we all know that," 26 [New American Library edition of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1962]), to the sacrificial son (Martha: "Poor lamb," 221); from George's Requiem Mass ("Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis," 227), to the Sabbath denouement (George: "Sunday tomorrow; all day,'' 239), and so forth.
The self-reflexivity of the play's language has also served as a point...
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