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Michael Billington
An updated edition now including Pinter’s life after 1996 - 2006.
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Harold Pinter
Reissued to commemorate Pinter winning the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature
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Charles Morton
This book charts the impact of Shakespeare's works on Harold Pinter's career as a playwright.This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies.
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William Baker
A biography of one of the most important writers in English of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. It offers fresh insights into his life and work, concentrating…
Harold Pinter is one of the most important writers in English of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. This biography offers insights into his life and work, focusing…
Graham Saunders
Harold Pinter provides an up-to-date analysis and reappraisal concerning the work of one of the most studied and performed dramatists in the world. This volume seeks to assess Pinter's critical…
John Russell Taylor
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Guido Almansi,Simon Henderson
First published in 1983, Harold Pinter is an original study into the work of one of Britain’s foremost dramatists.
Guido Almansi, Simon Henderson
First published in 1983, Harold Pinter is an original study into the work of one of Britain's foremost dramatists.
This book charts the impact of Shakespeare’s works on Harold Pinter’s career as a playwright.This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies.
Mark Taylor-Batty (University of Leeds, UK)
The Theatre of Harold Pinter offers a unique assesment of one of Britain’s most influential dramatists, combining a chronological survey of Pinter’s entire work for the stage with a series…
Andrew Wyllie (University of the West of England),Catherine Rees
This Reader’s Guide synthesises the key criticism on Pinter’s work over the last half century. Andrew Wyllie and Catherine Rees examine critical approaches and reactions to the major plays from…
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Examines the screenplays of the master British dramatist and screenwriter Harold Pinter.
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The most detailed chronological account of Harold Pinter to appear, this new volume in the Author Chronologies series traces the daily activities of the Nobel Prize winning author. It is…
This fourth collection of Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter’s work includes the plays BETRAYAL, MONOLOGUE, ONE FOR THE ROAD, MOUNTAIN LANGUAGE, FAMILY VOICES, A KIND OF ALASKA, VICTORIA STATION, PRECISELY, THE…
This volume contains the complete short plays of Harold Pinter from The Room, first performed in 1960, to Celebration, which premiered in 2000.
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Jane Wong Yeang Chui
Using Martin Esslin’s invention - the Theatre of the Absurd - to examine Pinter’s works, Wong brings the complexities and intricacies of the plays to the forefront, provoking readers and…
The essays deal with various aspects of Harold Pinter’s literary, cultural and political heritage in the former region of Eastern Europe like Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia, where…
This updated Companion covers all developments in the successful career of Harold Pinter since the publication of the first edition, including his 2005 Nobel Prize win and his appearance in…
M. Regal
Harold Pinter: A Question of Timing focuses on the ways in which Pinter conceives of and dramatises time according to the particular medium with which he is working. It traces…
Gra a P Corr a,Graca P Correa
Within the emerging interdisciplinary scope of landscape theory, and taking as its object of study the work written for the stage by contemporary British playwright Harold Pinter, this book is…
White G. D.
‘All you have do is shut up and enjoy the hospitality.’ Terry
Harold Pinter’s Party Time (1991) is an extraordinary distillation of the playwright’s key concerns. Pulsing with political anger…
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All you have do is shut up and enjoy the hospitality.‘ Terry
Varun Begley
Viewing his plays as a series of responses to fundamental aesthetic and political questions within modernism, Begley argues that, collectively, they narrate a prehistory of the postmodern.
Hanna Scolnicov
Scolnicov highlights Harold Pinter as an experimental playwright who attempted to free the theatre from the legacy of realism, causality, and motivation.
In his Nobel speech, entitled Art, Truth and Politics, Harold Pinter explained how he was fighting against the tapestry of lies . It is indeed those daily lies, lies of…
Updated edition of this popular Companion examining the wide range of Pinter’s work, and his continuing impact and influence.
With plays, poetry, essays, and screenplays, The Essential Pinter is an indispensable companion for anyone wishing to delve into the astonishingly dazzling and frequently ominous world of Harold Pinter.
Reissued to commemorate Pinter winning the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, this volume contains Harold Pinter’s first six plays
In a fashionable restaurant, two gangsterish brothers, formerly from the East End but now 'strategy consultants who enforce the peace', are celebrating a wedding anniversary with their wives, who are…
This edition, which has an introduction by the playwright himself, includes The Caretaker and two television plays, The Collection and The Lover, and several other shorter pieces from the same…
His consummate skill and unerring ear for dialogue, coupled with his sensitivity and understanding of the work of other authors, make these three volumes a collective masterclass in screenwriting. Everyone…
Presents a study of the gulf between parents and children and the anguish of approaching death…
Throughout his life, playwright and political activist Harold Pinter has consistently cast light on the hypocrisy of conformist truths in pure and simple terms. Awarded the Wilfred Owen Prize in…
Harold Pinter’s first and only novel, written in the early 1950s before he began writing plays. The novel is set in post-war London’s East End, a landscape of bomb-sites, and…
The Collection develops the themes of menace and lack of communication. The Lover is a one-act play for television, in which two characters play the double parts of wife-mistress and…
Albert finds himself dominated by his mother. At an office party he is mercilessly teased by his colleagues and arrives home, his temper rising. When his mother nags he attacks…
The reissuing of all his plays marks the arrival of Harold Pinter at Faber. These two plays were first performed as a double bill in 1960, first at the Hampstead…
The Controller of a radio-cab firm is trying to contact Driver 274 and get him to pick up a fare at Victoria Station.
