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Dramatist's Play Service (1965), Paperback, 102 pages
Description
Tragic allegory in which a Catholic lay brother's faith is tested by a wealthy woman, her lawyer, butler and a cardinal.
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LibraryThing member jburlinson
I know this play has always confounded audiences and elicited maximum venom from critics. Extracts: from Eliott Norton (laudatory), "big and brutal as an Elizabethan tragedy, sinister and blasphemous as a black mass, more depraved than any drama yet produced on the American stage", to Philip Roth,
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who called it ''a homosexual daydream.'' Albee's own mature judgment was, "Come on, you childish, foolish young playwright fond of the sound of your own voice." Yet this enigma has always haunted me -- surely at least part of the original intention. Show Less
Awards
Tony Award (Nominee — Play — 1965)
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1964
Physical description
102 p.; 7.4 inches
ISBN
0822211548 / 9780822211549
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OCLC = 59
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