Brill has published the third volume of “New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies,” Edward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator! Visit the Brill website for complete details.

The publication offers eight essays and a major interview by important scholars in the field that explore this three-time Pulitzer prize-winning playwright’s innovations as a dramatist and theatrical artist. They consider not only Albee’s award-winning plays and his contributions to the evolution of modern American drama, but also his important influence to the American theatre as a whole, his connections to art and music, and his international influence in Spanish and Russian theatre.

The table of contents includes:

“Editors’ Introduction”
David A. Crespy and Lincoln Konkle

“Designing Edward/Edward Designing: A Brief History of Edward Albee’s Role in Theatrical Design”
David A. Crespy

“Theatrical Thanatology: Direct Address, Gestural Storytelling, and the Triple Goddess in Three Plays about Dying by Edward Albee”
Milbre Burch

“The Glee of Vulnerability: Becoming Kin with Edward Albee’s Goat”
Parisa Shams

“A Queer Reading of Love in Edward Albee’s Counting the Ways”
Ashley Raven

“Albee Stages Secular Epiphany”
Nathan Hedman

“Art Is a Hammer: Aura, Textual Awareness, and Comedy in Albee”
David Marcia

“Affecting the Lives of ‘Others’: The Journey of Albee’s Plays in the Soviet Union”
Julia Listengarten

“The (Mis)Representation of Edward Albee in Spain, 1963–2010”
Ramón Espejo Romero

“Inside the Black Box: Albee’s Visual Aesthetics of Obscurity”
Valentine Vasak

“‘I Trap People’: An Interview with Edward Albee”
Jackson R. Bryer

Thanks to our series editor, Michael Y. Bennett, and our associate editor, Maija Birenbaum!

For more information about “New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies,” visit our Book Series page.