SOURCE: "Edward Albee: Conflict of Tradition," in Modern Drama, Vol. 10, No. 3, December 1967, pp. 274-79.
In the essay below, Knepler examines Albee's uneasy mixture of the American dramatic tradition, with its emphasis on rationality, causation, and explanation, with elements of the Theatre of the Absurd, with its stress on senselessness and incomprehension.
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