American Literature / Unit 17 AML 1643 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Edward Albee and August Wilson
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The idea
The witness calls Albee the most influential dramatist of the early nineteen sixties, whose Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? violently exposes a couple's shared fantasy of a child as untruth. August Wilson, self-taught in Pittsburgh, co-founded a Black Nationalist theatre company in nineteen sixty-eight.
In practice
An exposed fantasy, and a Pittsburgh theatre.
Where people slip
Albee brought European absurdism into American drama.
Your place on the trail
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