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Matthew Roudane has been one of Albee's most astute and discerning critics for more than thirty years. In his energetic, engaging, and precise prose, he offers analyses of twenty-five Albee plays, enriched by the playwright's words from Roudane's many interviews with him. This book is accessible to the general reader and theatergoer, but rewards the specialist just as well. Overviews of Albee's life and work establish the themes that undergird Roudane's treatment of the plays-Albee's existential sense of human loss and being lost balanced by a profound sense of hope, his conviction of the preeminence of consciousness in living human life to the full, his belief in the regenerative powers of the imagination. The coherent vision Roudane brings to, or reveals in, Albee's work, from The Zoo Story (1959) to Me, Myself, and I (2008), is simply stunning. Brenda Murphy, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus It would be hard to imagine a more thorough, intelligent, persuasive and sympathetic account of the work of Edward Albee than this. The word 'Introduction' is too modest. This is a comprehensive account not only of the plays and the man who wrote them but of the theatrical, social and political context in which they were written. This will surely stand as a key work for all those interested in one of the finest playwrights America has produced. Christopher Bigsby, Professor of American Studies, University of East Anglia

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Matthew Roudané is Regents' Professor of English at Georgia State University. He has published widely on various aspects of American drama, particularly the theatre of major figures including Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Edward Albee. He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams (1997) and of The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard (2002).

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