Further Reading
- Campos, Carlos. "The Role of Beyond the Forest in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Literature/Film Quarterly 22, No. 3 (1994): 170-3. (Studies the significance of the film Beyond the Forest in terms of character, theme, and plot.)
- Henry, William A., III. "Albee Is Back." Time 143, No. 8 (21 February 1994): 64. (Highly laudatory review of Three Tall Women. Henry asserts: "Out of the simplest and most familiar material—a woman of 90-plus years coping with the infirmities and confusions of the moment and looking back on a life of gothic excess—Albee fashions a spellbinder.")
- Herr, Denise Dick. "The Tophet at New Carthage: Setting in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" English Language Notes XXXIII, No. 1 (September 1995): 63-71. (Discusses the degree to which the ancient city of Carthage and classical myths inform the setting of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
- Kerjan, Liliane. "Pure and Simple: The Recent Plays of Edward Albee." In New Essays on American Drama, edited by Gilbert Debusscher and Henry I. Schvey, pp. 99-108. Atlanta, GA, and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1989. (Examines The Lady from Dubuque, Listening, and Counting the Ways.)
- Kroll, Jack. "Trinity of Women." Newsweek CXXIII, No. 8 (21 February 1994): 62. (Offers a favorable assessment of Three Tall Women, calling it one of Albee's best works.)
- Luere, Jeane. A review of Sand. Theatre Journal 46, No. 4 (December 1994): 543-44. (A favorable assessment of Sand.)
- Nelson, Gerald. "Edward Albee and His Well-Made Plays." Tri-Quarterly, No. 5 (1966): 182-88. (Examines Albee's "compulsion to be discursive rather than dramatic," to narrate rather than to present the action in his plays, which, Nelson maintains, has the effect of diminishing the audience's involvement.)
- Roth, Philip. "The Play That Dare Not Speak Its Name." New York Review of Books 4, No. 2 (25 February 1965): 4. (Highly negative assessment of Tiny Alice.)
- Samuels, Steven. "Yes is Better Than No." American Theatre 11, No. 7 (September 1994): 38. (Interview in which Albee discusses the success of Three Tall Women. The text of the play follows.)
- Sterling, Eric. "Albee's Satirization of Societal Sterility in America." Studies in Contemporary Satire 14 (1987): 30-9. (Delineates Albee's negative portrayal of American society in The Zoo Story and The American Dream.)
- Weber, Bruce. "On Stage, and Off." The New York Times (15 April 1994): C2. (Relates events surrounding the decision to award Albee the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the merits of the other nominees.)
- Witherington, Paul. "Albee's Gothic: The Resonances of Cliché." Contemporary Drama IX, No. 1 (Spring 1970): 151-65. (Examines how Albee's use of cliché in his plays demonstrates his "affinity with Gothic writing.")
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