San Antonio College Library

"Powerful, probing, vivid and arresting, these eight plays -- the personal choices of Edward Albee -- are together for the first time in this exclusive members' edition."--The dust-jacket front flap

Collection of 17 plays which did not appear in the editor's earlier Best plays collections covering the period, 1918-1958.

In this phantasmagorical play, the Camino Real (pronunciation: Cá-mino Réal) is a long highway, a dead end, a police state in a vaguely Latin American country, a nightmare, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literature -- Don Quixote, Casanova, Camille, Lord Byron -- inhabit a place where corruption, starvation, indifference and greed have immobilized anyone who tries to escape. Then, into this netherworld, the archetypal...

"The author of Sorrows of Stephen turns a modern eye on the romance of American nineteenth century literature in this surreal comedy. The play begins with Huck Finn climbing through Walt Whitman's bedroom window. Since Whitman's male lover has just died, he decides to go on a picaresque journey with Huck down the river of American culture. They encounter Custer, Thoreau, Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Cushman and Emily Dickinson. The craziness...

Complete texts of eight plays, representing modern literary genres, by Kaufman and Connelly, Howard, Behrman, O'Neill, Anderson, Odets, Williams and Miller. Bibliogs.

At the time of her death in 1965, Lorraine Hansberry's reputation as one of America's leading playwrights rested primarily on one play, "A Raisin in the Sun", a major work of our time. Until the off-Broadway production in 1969 of "To Be Young, Gifted and Black", Miss Hansberry had become a part of theatrical history which is to say, almost forgotten.. It was assumed that nothing in her work was relevant to the sixties. But that assumption could only...

Author is believed lesbian & 1st woman playwright in this century to achieve any notice.

"Set in an army barracks in the early days of the Vietnam War, Streamers has electrified audiences from its first performances with its explosive portrayal of a handful of soldiers and their fatally intertwined destinies- Richie, a wealthy neurotic who cannot resist temptation; Billy, an earnest midwestern straight arrow; Roger, a street-wise refugee from the ghetto; Carlyle, a pathological misfit who threatens the order and substance of their lives;...

Dark drama of a failed man, Willy Loman, whose life did not measure up to his expectations. Movie made for television.