Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Lesson Plan

First produced in 1962, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee's first full-length play and first to be produced on Broadway, was tremendously controversial in its day due to its portrayal of the sexual and emotional chaos of an angry, perhaps mutually abusive marriage. In fact, a Pulitzer jury wanted to award it a Pulitzer Prize, but the organization ultimately refused to grant it. In the play, a middle-aged couple, George and Martha, invite a younger couple, Nick and Honey, into their home in the university town where Nick and George are both employed as professors and Martha is the daughter of the university president. George and Martha's wide-ranging cruelties to each other,...