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for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A Synopsis of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
Beware spoilers! An act-by-act description of the play.
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Edward Albee: An Abbreviated Biography
A brief biography of the celebrated playwright of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, including a list of career works.
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Notable events of the 1960s
A bulleted list of important events of the 1960s by year.
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Albee's Absurdity
PCS Literary Manager and Dramaturg Kamilah Bush touches on the Absurdist movement of the mid-twentieth century, and how its "confrontation of self" informs the existential reckonings in Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Reading List
Calling all readers! Multnomah County Library put together a reading list inspired by our production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
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Cast & Creative Team
Meet the cast and creative team for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
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Albee
- https://westviewnews.org/2020/05/03/carousing-in-the-village-with-terrence-and-edward/gcapsis/
- https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/edward-albee
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080529174911/http://www.theparisreview.com/media/4350_ALBEE.pdf
- https://www.sab.ac.lk/sljssh/articles/issue-3-1/sljssh-3(1)-5.pdf
- https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/theater/whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf-returns-for-an-anniversary.html
- https://lithub.com/what-passes-for-love-on-the-marriage-of-leonard-and-virginia-woolf/
- https://wagner.edu/wagnermagazine/whos-the-source-for-virginia-woolf/
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Whos-Afraid-of-Virginia-Woolf
- https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/04/specials/koch-absurd.html?scp=35&sq=Absurd&st=cse
- https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/theater-of-the-absurd-explained-77265/
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/existentialism
- https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/edward-albee
- https://edwardalbeesociety.org/works/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-Albee
- https://newrepublic.com/article/178149/messy-making-whos-afraid-virginia-woolf-edward-albee
1960s America
- https://www.reddoormetro.com/average-cost-of-a-new-home-in-the-u-s-from-1962-to-2025/
- https://fly.homes/blog/budgeting/cost-of-living-in-the-usa/
- https://www.demandsage.com/average-us-income/#:~:text=The%20median%20household%20income%20in,is%20estimated%20to%20be%20%2478%2C171
- https://caredge.com/guides/new-car-price-trends-in-2025
- https://www.dairyherd.com/news/business/will-we-see-25-milk-2025
- https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Nixon
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dwight-D-Eisenhower
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-F-Kennedy/Congressman-and-senator#ref384515
- https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cold-war-history
- https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/TrumanCIA_Timeline.pdf
- https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/the-cold-war
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/world/gallery/cold-war-history/index.html
- https://www.britannica.com/event/Cold-War/Toward-a-new-world-order
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/opinion/what-was-the-vietnam-war-about.html
- https://time.com/vietnam-photos/
- https://www.archives.gov/research/military/vietnam-war/casualty-statistics#:~:text=April%2029%2C%202008.-,The%20Vietnam%20Conflict%20Extract%20Data%20File%20of%20the%20Defense%20Casualty,and%20Records%20Administration%20in%202008.
- https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=18&smtid=1
- https://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War
- https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-history
- https://time.com/vietnam-photos/
- https://www.pritzkermilitary.org/explore/vietnam-war/armed-forces
- https://www.sss.gov/about/return-to-draft/
- https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/unum/playlist/the-draft
- https://www.sss.gov/history-and-records/changes-from-vietnam-to-now/
- https://www.studentsofhistory.com/vietnam-war-draft
- http://michiganintheworld.history.lsa.umich.edu/antivietnamwar/exhibits/show/exhibit/draft_protests/the-military-draft-during-the-
- https://laurafreconanimals.weebly.com/new-england-life-1960s.html
- https://touringnewengland.org/history-of-new-england/
- https://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2020/12/29/a-brief-history-of-new-england
- https://newengland.com/yankee/magazine/yankee-magazine-covers-1960s/
- https://www.britannica.com/place/New-England
- https://lostnewengland.com/category/years/1960s/
- https://statisticalatlas.com/division/New-England/Household-Income
- https://worldpopulationreview.com/regions/new-england
- https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1960/pc-s1-supplementary-reports/pc-s1-10.pdf
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