Further Reading
- Clurman, Harold, "Albee on Balance," The New York Times (13 November 1966): II 1, 3. (Contends that in A Delicate Balance and other plays Albee demonstrates that "we are uneasy, without comfort, unhinged.")
- McCarten, John, "Six on a Seesaw," The New Yorker XLII, No. 32 (1 October 1966): 121-22. (Review of A Delicate Balance that argues that the play is "lacking in cohesion, and the motivations of its characters [are] rather hard to follow.")
- Paolucci, Anne, "Albee and the Restructuring of the Modern Stage," Studies in American Drama, 1945-Present 1 (1986): 3-23. (Analyzes Albee's innovative dramaturgy in A Delicate Balance, notably the "integration of language and musical effects—the arias, the large choral voices, the weaving of melodic strains" in the play.)
- Sheed, Wilfrid, "Liquor is Thicker," Commonweal LXXXV, No. 2 (14 October 1966): 55-6. (Negative review that regards A Delicate Balance "no more than half a play, about a year's work from completion.")
- von Szeliski, John, "Between Optimism and Pessimism," In Tragedy and Fear: Why Modern Tragic Drama Fails, pp. 19-29. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1971. (Includes a consideration of A Delicate Balance, calling it "an excellent philosophical image of our time precisely because it does not attempt the formula of tragedy.")
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