Edward Albee (1928–2016) may be regarded as one of the major American playwrights who dared to create an alternative discourse which openly challenged the coercive structures of society exposing the assumptions about gender, ethnicity and identity as patriarchal constructs. Albee provides us with a clinical analysis of the American Society where solitude, misgivings lie deep within while a profound complacency thrives in the outer world. His text captured the psychic fragmentation of an entire generation vacillating between the snares of capitalist ideology on the one hand and the search for an altruistic purpose on the other. In this article, identity in the plays of Edward Albee has been highlighted.
Key words: Edward Albee, Identity, Plays.
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