[PDF] Harold Pinter eBook

Author : Antonia Fraser
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0385669100

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A moving testament to modern literature's most celebrated marriage: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer, Antonia Fraser. In this exquisite memoir, Antonia Fraser recounts the life she shared with the internationally renowned dramatist. In essence, it is a love story and a marvelously insightful account of their years together. Must You Go? is based on Fraser's recollections and on the diaries she has kept since October 1968. She shares Pinter's own revelations about his past, as well as observations by his friends.

Author : Harold Pinter
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802142696

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Presents selections of the work of playwright Harold Pinter. Includes key plays, poetry, and the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature lecture.

Author : Harold Pinter
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 9780822207047

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THE STORY: A husband goes to his office politely asking if his wife's lover will be coming today. She murmurs 'Mmmm,' and suggests he not return before six. In order not to return before six he will no doubt visit a prostitute. A competition is glossily established. When the lover does come, he is the husband, which is not surprising. The kind of sex-play follows that suggests this is the necessary titillation, and the necessary release ofhostility, between a man who means to be master of the house and a wife who means to be both wife and mistress, whatever the house may be. But there is a flaw in the accommodation. The lover is weary of his mistress; she is no longer particularly appetizing. By the time he returns, as husband, in the evening, his wife is still disturbed by the news. The performance of the afternoon has begun to carry over into the reality (or pretense) of the evening. Suddenly the husband is not quite husband, diffident over his drink. He is blurring into the lover, at the wrong hour, and angrily. The wife must seduce him now as wife, not as mistress. She does. -NY Herald-Tribune.

Author : Harold Pinter
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 36,80 MB
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 080219172X

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“A fascinating work . . . possessing extraordinary power. Masterful.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Brilliant, cranky, and eccentric, and the narrative passages are some of the most thrilling ever written.” —Library Journal “Some of the author’s most enduring themes—notably, sexual jealousy and betrayal—are present. . . . The narration shows traces of writers as various as Joyce and Beckett, e.e. cummings and J.P. Donleavy.” —The Washington Post “The Abbott and Costello meet Samuel Beckett dialogue . . . makes you laugh out loud.” —The Village Voice

Author : James R. Hollis
Publisher : Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 10,16 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Drama
ISBN :

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This first full-length book on Pinter goes beyond an introductory study to an examination of the isolation characters in his plays endure and the lack of communication they bear. Dealing with Pinter's principal works, from his first play, The Room (1957), through his most recent, Silence (1969), Hollis shows that Pinter has created a new poetic, in which the real presence, silence, communicates--reflecting fears of real people searching for basic human needs.

Author : Peter Raby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521886090

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Updated edition of this popular Companion examining the wide range of Pinter's work, and his continuing impact and influence.

Author : Harold Pinter
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802151148

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In "The Birthday Party", a musician becomes the victim of a ritual murder. Everyone implacably plays out the role assigned to them by fate. "The Room" becomes the scene of a visitation of fate when a blind Negro suddenly arrives to deliver a mysterious message.

Author : Varun Begley
Publisher :
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0802038875

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The Frankfurt School's discourse on modernism has seldom been linked to contemporary drama, though the questions of aesthetics and politics explored by T.W. Adorno and others seem especially germane to the plays of Harold Pinter, which span high and low cultural forms and move freely from hermetic modernism to political engagement. Examining plays from 1958 to 1996, Varun Begley'sHarold Pinter and the Twilight of Modernism argues that Pinter's work simultaneously embodies the modernist principle of negation and the more fluid aesthetics of the postmodern. Pinter is arguably one of the most popular and perplexing of modern dramatists writing in English. His plays prefigured, then chronicled, the crumbling divide between modernism and its historical 'others:' popular entertainment, politically committed art, and technological mass culture. Begley sheds new light on Pinter's work by applying the methods and problems of cultural studies discourse. 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.

Author : Michael Billington
Publisher :
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780571190652

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A biography of the playwright Harold Pinter and a study of his work as writer, actor and director. His political beliefs are viewed from the perspective of his life, which he began as an only child in Hackney, where he was one of a group of youths delighting in intellectual wordplay and badinage.