The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee Book

1	Introduction : the man who had three lives	1
2	Albee's early one-act plays : "a new American playwright from whom much is to be expected"	16
3	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? : toward the marrow	39
4	"Withered age and stale custom" : marriage, diminution, and sex in Tiny Alice, A delicate balance, and Finding the sun	59
5	Albee's 3 1/2 : the Pulitzer plays	75
6	Albee's threnodies : Box-Mao-Box, All over, The lady from Dubuque, and Three tall women	91
7	Minding the play : thought and feeling in Albee's "hermetic" works	108
8	Albee's monster children : adaptations and confrontations	127
9	"Better alert than numb" : Albee since the eighties	148
10	Albee stages Marriage play : cascading action, audience taste, and dramatic paradox	164
11	"Playing the cloud circuit" : Albee's vaudeville show	178
12	Albee's The goat : rethinking tragedy for the 21st century	199
13	"Words; words they're such a pleasure." (an afterword)	217
14	Borrowed time : an interview with Edward Albee	231