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Essay on Edward Franklin Albee
Edward Albee, born on 12th March, 1928 in Washington, D.C. made entry in American Theatre in the late 1950s with a wide range of plays. He was raised and brought up by Reed A. and Frances Cotta Albee, who adopted him just two weeks after his birth when his real parents abandoned and dumped him. His adoptive grandfather, Edward Franklin Albee owned over two hundred variety show theaters across the country so he inherited his name as well as his profession from him. His adoptive parents who wanted him to select and practice a more respectable business and professional career sent him to several elementary schools but because he had exposure to theater right from the beginning due to his family business he developed an obsessive love for the art, writing stories and poetry. His interest towards art was the main cause of all the differences he had with his family especially with his adoptive mother, Mrs Albee who wanted him to become a successful sportsman, After getting dismissed from Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut at the age of 20, he decided to move to Greenwich Village in New York City. After getting separated from his parents he survived using his paternal grandmother's inheritance and started performing a number of basic jobs. It was in 1959 when he wrote his first play The Zoo Story that made him a famous dramatist in Europe and New York. The play was premiered in Berlin. (http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3687&source_type=A)
He did not put a pause to his career at this point and continued writing plays on different themes and subject matters. In 1959, he wrote The Death of Bessie Smith, which portrayed and explored American race relations in the southern Gothic atmosphere. His other plays The Sandbox(1960) and The American Dream(1961) gave birth to American drama....
