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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee American Theatre, week eight Revolution and apocalypse Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Revolution and experimentation Theatrical innovation Americanness and apocalypse Politics Society’s collapse Sources and influences O’Neill, Miller, Williams Revolution ‘I am basically concerned with the health of my own society […] I have always thought of the United States as a revolutionary society and our revolution is supposed to be a continuing one, one of the very few slow revolutions that is not bogged down in bureaucracy and totalitarianism.’ (Albee, in an interview with Christopher Bigsby, 1980s.) ‘Libera Me’ (a translation of the Latin that George speaks towards the end of the play) Deliver me, O Lord, from death eternal on that fearful day, when the heavens and the earth shall be moved, when thou shalt come to judge the world by fire. I am made to tremble, and I fear, till the judgment be upon us, and the coming wrath, when the heavens and the earth shall be moved. That day, day of wrath, calamity, and misery, day of great and exceeding bitterness, when thou shalt come to judge the world by fire. Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord: and let light perpetual shine upon them. George and Martha Washington [L]et every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty. (Quoted in Hugh Brogan, The Penguin History of America, 2nd edn. (London: Penguin, 1999), pp. 613-614.) John F. Kennedy delivering his inaugural address, 20 January, 1961 ‘[h]is brilliantly articulate calls for a reinvigorated liberal humanism, his dramatic parables of the need for the restoration of human values on a public and private level, struck just the right note for the Kennedy years, as did his hints of a threatening apocalypse.’ (Christopher Bigsby, A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American