Essay About Edward Albee And Adoptive Parents

Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
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Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
The play “three tall women” by Edward Albee is written in two parts and has 110 pages.
It was written in 1991 and published in 1994, in what same year it won the Pulitzer
Prize for Drama and was Edward Albee’s third Pulitzer Prize winning book after “A
Delicate Balance” and “Seascape”. His most famous play “Who’s afraid of Virginia
Woolf?” received the New York Drama critics Circle Award for Best Play.
Edward Albee was born on March 12th 1928 somewhere in Virginia. His biological
parents gave him up for adoption when he was two weeks old and he was taken up by
Reed and Frances Albee. His new father was the heir to the famous Keith-Albee Theatre
Circuit in Columbia, and thus it was Edwards’s fortune to be surrounded by wealth and
privilege from nearly the beginning of his life.
Albee’s relationship with his adoptive parents was fraught with discord and he freely
admits that he was a problem child.
There was, however, one member of the family that he had a very close relationship with.
That person was Frances Albee’s mother, Grandma Cotta, who inspired him to write the
play “Three Tall Woman”.
In the play he deals with his relationship with his mother from a different perspective.
Also did Edward leave his home when he was eighteen because of his bad relationship
with his parents and his homosexuality, what is the same as the son of the main character
in “Three Tall Women”.