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Author Description Noted American playwright <b>Edward Franklin Albee</b> explored the darker aspects of human relationships in plays like <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14940.Who_s_Afraid_of_Virginia_Woolf_" title="Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" rel="nofollow noopener">Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?</a> </i> (1962) and <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106123.Three_Tall_Women" title="Three Tall Women" rel="nofollow noopener">Three Tall Women</a> </i> (1991), which won his third Pulitzer Prize. <br /><br />People know Edward Franklin Albee III for works, including <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150150.The_Zoo_Story" title="The Zoo Story" rel="nofollow noopener">The Zoo Story</a> </i>, <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12365551.The_Sandbox" title="The Sandbox" rel="nofollow noopener">The Sandbox</a> </i> and <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17202840.The_American_Dream" title="The American Dream" rel="nofollow noopener">The American Dream</a> </i>. <br />He well crafted his works, considered often unsympathetic examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflected a mastery and Americanization of the theater of the absurd, which found its peak in European playwrights, such as <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/29952.Jean_Genet" title="Jean Genet" rel="nofollow noopener">Jean Genet</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1433597.Samuel_Barclay_Beckett" title="Samuel Barclay Beckett" rel="nofollow noopener">Samuel Barclay Beckett</a>, and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7689.Eug_ne_Ionesco" title="Eugène Ionesco" rel="nofollow noopener">Eugène Ionesco</a>. Younger Pulitzer Prize-winner <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/81190.Paula_Vogel" title="Paula Vogel" rel="nofollow noopener">Paula Vogel</a> credits daring mix of theatricalism and biting dialogue of Albee with helping to reinvent the postwar theater in the early 1960s. Dedication of Albee to continuing to evolve his voice — as evidenced in later productions such as <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40107.The_Goat_or_Who_Is_Sylvia_" title="The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?" rel="nofollow noopener">The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?</a> </i> (2000) — also routinely marks him as distinct of his era. <br /><br />Albee described his work as "an examination of the American Scene, an attack on the substitution of artificial for real values in our society, a condemnation of complacency, cruelty, and emasculation and vacuity, a stand against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachy-keen." <br />

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