SOURCE: "Harold Pinter & Edward Albee: The First Post-moderns," in Postmodern Drama: Contemporary Playwrights in American and Britain, University Press of America, 1984, pp. 25-47.
In the excerpt below, Simard explores Albee's technique of undercutting "conventional expectations by dividing his emphasis between external and internal reality. " The critic further argues that Albee's "realistic framework, the family, serves as the point of departure for his own type of subjective reality, an examination of his characters ' psyches."
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