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With the other two, it was different. Beckett and Pinter “broke” the usual contract between the play and the audience, that you would be given a certain amount of information. Unlike surrealism and Dada, which he thought “intrinsically worthless,” these plays were not “irrational” or “arbitrary.” They did what Shakespeare did: “the simultaneous compression of language and expansion of meaning.” He ended
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