PLAYING POETICS OF EDWARD ALBEE'S DRAMA "WHO IS AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLF"
The article researches the realization of a play mode in Edward Albee's play “Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf'. The author analyzes the poetics principles, manifested on verbal, narrative, compositional and characterological levels. Intertextual inclusions from the Bible and classical works of literature, music and philosophy are studied. The author reveals the synthesis of the comic and tragic principles in the conceptualization of the main problems of the play, such as: the crisis of Western culture and the collapse of the American dream.