Three tall women: return to the muses / Edward Albee: a retrospective (and beyond) / Absurdly American: rediscovering the representation of violence in The zoo story / 'Good, better, best, bested': the failure of American typology in Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? / Like father, like son: the ciphermale in A delicate balance and Malcolm / Forging text into theatre: Edward Albee directs Box and quotations from chairman Mao Tse-Tung / A demystified mystique: all over and the fall of the cult of true womanhood / The lady from Dubuque: into the labyrinth / Postmodernist tensions in Albee's recent plays / Directing Three tall women / Interview with Edward Albee