There are certain similarities that are obvious in the writings of Edward Albee and Samuel Beckett. The most obvious is that they are both writers of theater of the absurd. Albee's plays deal with the discrepancy between illusion and reality and Beckett's plays normally are concerned with the occupation with the intellectual over the physical. In Beckett's plays, however, his characters exist only in the mind. They are free
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