Edward Albee's play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is a drama exploring the anxieties of modern life. By personalizing aspects of the epic Albee has inverted many of its features to ... is used comparatively to demonstrate how Albee achieves satire. Abrams's first definition of epic is the closest to which "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" adhere- it is about a serious subject. The seriousness of the play is developed through its language, which is not elevated or formal as in a traditional epic, rather, it is crude and intoxicated. ... in turn, increases the intensity of the insults betw...

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