Abstract
This paper explains that a title of a play is often an indication of what the play might be about, where a story takes place or must be interpreted, such as Edward Albee's plays, "The Zoo Story", "The Sandbox" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf". The paper then goes on to analyze and interpret the titles of each play. It first relates that "The Sandbox", which the writer believes is the weakest of the three plays, sets the play inside a sandbox that represents more than just a child's sandbox or the beach. Next, the paper explains "The Zoo Story" does not take place in a zoo, but rather depicts the main character's life, which is like a zoo. Lastly, the paper discusses the play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", suggesting that the title of this play is the hardest to interpret.

From the Paper
"One interpretation is that the title is a description of Jerry's life. While Peter lives a very civilized life in an upper-class neighborhood in New York with his wife, children, and pets, Jerry lives in "a four-story brownstone rooming house." From his description, we learn that the other tenants in the boarding house are from all walks of life and include a "colored queen," a drunken landlord, and a Puerto Rican family. The way the house is set up is representative of a zoo. The people live in their own sections of the house much like animals in a zoo and have seemingly nothing in common."

Tags:interpretation house casket sexual, fear of reality

From the Paper
"The Zoo Story" is essentially a parable of poorly concealed violence. Literally, Jerry has just come from the zoo, where he has made the decision which will govern his actions during the rest of the play. Less simply, the title itself suggests the ideas of the thin veneer of civilization which covers the animalistic violence just beneath the surface of man. In addition to this there is the additional inference that the title itself is meant to connote the isolation of man.

Cohn and Dukore write, "One of Albee's impressive achievements in this play is his soldering of the realistic and the symbolic. Classical mythology is evoked by Jerry's reference to his landlady and her dog as 'the gatekeepers of my dwelling' and to the latter as 'a descendant of the puppy that guarded the gates of hell or some such resort.'". The biblical imagery is ... "

Abstract
"Edward Albee's play The Zoo Story is a play about communication, or rather, the lack of communication between people who believe they are communicating.

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"Edward Albee's play The Zoo Story is a play about communication, or rather, the lack of communication between people who believe they are communicating. The play is both comic and tragic, for the same lack of communication which brings laughter can the next moment bring pathos as the consequences of isolated human beings (human beings who cannot or will not communicate openly and honestly) brings death, even murder, or murder by suicide.

The play features two men, Jerry and Peter. Jerry is either mad or so eccentric and troubled that he might as well be mad, and Peter is conservative and completely ignorant of the world beyond his little married life. On one level, the men appear to be trying to communicate, although there are obvious roadblocks to that end."

Abstract
Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? brings together two couples in a college town, one couple older and more experienced, the other younger and new to the academic world, for a night of psychodrama approaching outright psychological torture.

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"Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? brings together two couples in a college town, one couple older and more experienced, the other younger and new to the academic world, for a night of psychodrama approaching outright psychological torture. The older couple has clearly performed this ritual many times before, and over the course of the night, while they pass through a series of stages leading form one interpersonal position to another, they cannot be said to be changed by the experience. After all, as noted, they have tortured one another like this before and will do so again. On this night, Martha may give away more secrets or take the drama in a different direction, but still the couple has done this before. The younger couple, on the other hand, experience something new which challenges their view of the accepted order and tests their view ..."

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" Edward Albee's Three Tall Women is a remarkable play about an unlikable woman near the end of her long life. By means of its clever structure it dissects her life and character very thoroughly. This woman, identified only as A by the author, is completely unsympathetic but eventually, as understanding grows, she becomes, if not likable, at least comprehensible as a full human being rather than the caricature she at first appears to be. In the first act three characters, simply called A, B, and C hold a long conversation in a richly appointed bedroom. A is 92 years old, terribly fragile, and drifts from lucidity to brief moments of confusion, or indifference, as to her whereabouts. B is a 52-year-old woman who is A's care giver and C is 26, a young lawyer who has been sent by her firm to tend to details of A's estate. In the second act the three very different personalities..."

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"The film of Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? delves into the lives of four people who meet one night for a drink in a college town, one couple older and more experienced, the other younger and new to the academic world; in truth, they meet for a night of psychodrama approaching outright psychological torture. The older couple has clearly performed this ritual many times before, and over the course of the night, while they pass through a series of stages leading form one interpersonal position to another, they cannot be said to be changed by the experience. After all, as noted, they have tortured one another like this before and will do so again. On this night, Martha may give away more secrets or take the drama in a different direction, but still the couple has done this before. The younger couple, on the other hand, experience.."

Abstract
In the play "The American Dream", Albee exemplifies the theater of absurd by indicating the way Americans act in reality.The writers shows that it was the lack of communication in American Society that made Albee create such a controversial, yet original play. But even if Albee believes that the main idea of the play was the breakdown of the communication, the play still creates controversy because people are able to read in between lines where the social criticism is hidden.

From the Paper
"American society draws the attention of many writers, including an excellent playwright, Edward Albee. In the play, "The American Dream," Albee illustrates the way Americans act by using his main theme, the theater of absurd. By using this theme he sets his main characters as caricatures of normal Americans who care only about having a harmonic life, which includes being rich and having a perfect family. The fact that it is one-act play adds up to its' originality mainly because such a short play creates the controversy over having different meanings to certain critics. These meanings come from various hidden messages that Albee was able to include in this one-act play."

Tags:absurd, albee, edward, theatre, play, american, society, satiric

Abstract
This essay analyzes the unseen characters in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?" by Edward Albee and "The Homecoming" by Harold Pinter. According to the paper, even though unseen, and in the case of Albee's play even imaginary, these characters play an important role in portraying the relationships between the "visible" or actual protagonists. Both Albee and Pinter wrote the plays in early 1960 and the plays share some common drama points.

From the Paper
"This essay will analyze the unseen characters in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?" by Edward Albee and "The Homecoming" by Harold Pinter. Even though unseen, and in the case of Albee's play even imaginary, these characters play an important role in portraying the relationships between the "visible" or actual protagonists. Both Albee and Pinter wrote the plays in early 1960 and the plays share some common drama points. One of the most obvious is the question of power. George in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf" is obviously character..."

Tags:pinter, albee, unseen characters

Abstract
This paper compares and contrasts Edward Albee's 1959 play "The Zoo Story" and the 1998 film "Pleasantville", written and directed by Gary Ross. The paper further states that although they were created in different forms, one as a stage play and the other as a film, both began life as different forms of the written word, and both deal with conformity versus change, propriety versus transformation as embodied in their respective characters who intrude on another's world and incite metamorphosis.

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"There is a huge difference between Edward Albee's 1959 play The Zoo Story and the 1998 film Pleasantville, written and directed by Gary Ross. You would think that there wouldn't be any common ground between these two very different works of art. Though it is fairly obvious that they were created in different forms, one as a stage play and the other as a film, both began life as different forms of the written word, and both manage to handle and deal with various angles of human life and behavior, but they do it in two very different periods: one in the 1950s, the other in the late 1990s."

Tags:pleasantville, albee, awakening

Abstract
This paper analyzes the significance of Jerry's monologue regarding his landlady's dog in Edward Albee's play "The Zoo Story." The paper discusses how Jerry's interaction with the dog parallels his relationship to other human beings.

From the Paper
"In Edward Albee's short play "The Zoo Story" the character of Jerry is isolated from humanity and goes out of his way to make connections with others in an attempt to bridge that distance. His encounter with Peter is certainly evidence of this fact but it is the story that Jerry tells about this landlady's dog that best illustrates his difficulty in establishing relationships with others. Indeed Jerry becomes so desperate in his pursuit of contact with another living creature that he becomes almost obsessed with the dog."

Tags:albee, zoo, jerry, dog