Download or read book The Birthday Party and The Room written by Harold Pinter and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book One for the Road written by Harold Pinter and published by Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Plays of Harold Pinter written by Andrew Wyllie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, charting the controversies which have arisen in response to Pinter's critiques of political and sexual issues. They consider criticism from the press and academics, on the themes of Absurdism, politics and gender identity. By placing this criticism in its historical context, this guide illustrates a transition from bewilderment and outrage to affection, fascination - and more outrage.
Download or read book Pinter in Play written by Susan Hollis Merritt and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pinter in Play provides a survey of diverse readings of the Harold Pinter canon organized around and presented in terms of the major critical schools of the past twenty-five years, from New Criticism to deconstruction to poststructuralism. Reflecting on the cultural, personal, sociological, and philosophical contexts of these diverse critical perspectives and the critics who express them, this book is equally about the act or the art of literary criticism and itself an important work of literary criticism. Drawing on interviews with Pinter scholars, Susan Hollis Merritt shows how critics "play" with Pinter and thereby seriously enforce personal, professional, and political affiliations. Cutting across traditional academic and nonacademic boundaries, Merritt argues that greater cooperation and collaboration among critics can resolve conflicts, promote greater social equity, and foster ameliorative critical and cultural change.
Download or read book The Essential Pinter written by Harold Pinter and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents selections of the work of playwright Harold Pinter. Includes key plays, poetry, and the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature lecture.
Download or read book The Birthday Party written by Harold Pinter and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic, produced and studied throughout the world.
Download or read book The Birthday Party written by Harold Pinter and published by Samuel French. This book was released on 1960 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goldberg and McCann arrive at a seaside boarding house where Meg and Petey live with their guest Stanley. They inquire about Stanley: we soon find out that McCann and Goldberg have a job to do. Learning it is his birthday they give Stanley a party at which Stanley is verbally bludgeoned into submission. The next day Stanley is removed. It is the collective impact of the dialogue which welds they seemingly inexplicable actions of Goldberg and McCann into a menacing whole.
Download or read book A Night Out written by Harold Pinter and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and leaves her, gets picked up by a girl and is able to reduce her to humble servility. Yet, when he arrives home his mother is there fully recovered and ready to reassert her dominance.
Download or read book One for the Road written by Harold Pinter and published by Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 1986 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a chilling study of power and powerlessness. Set in an unnamed totalitarian state, this play presents a violent, disturbing portrait of political horror in which an interrogator torments a tortured prisoner and his imprisoned wife and child.
Download or read book Celebration The Room written by Harold Pinter and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It's a celebration. Violent, wildly funny, Harold Pinter's new play displays a vivid zest for life. In The Room, Harold Pinter's first play, he reveals himself as already in full control of his unique ability to make dramatic poetry of the banalities of everyday speech and the precision with which it defines character. Harold Pinter's latest play, Celebration, and his first play, The Room directed by the author himself, premièred as a double-bill at London's Almeida Theatre in March 2000.
Download or read book The Caretaker and the Dumb Waiter written by Harold Pinter and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacket description.back: In all of Pinter's plays, seemingly ordinary events become charged with profound, if elusive, meaning, haunting pathos, and wild comedy. In The Caretaker, a tramp finds lodging in the derelict house of two brothers; in The Dumbwaiter, a pair of gunmen wait for the kill in a decayed lodging house. Harold Pinter gradually exposes the inner strains and fear of his characters, alternating hilarity and character to create and almost unbearable edge of tension.
Download or read book Pinter written by Martin Esslin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1977, the third edition of Pinter is an excellent analysis of Harold Pinter and his works. Written when Pinter was only a few plays old, the book draws on several sources, including interviews with Pinter himself, to comment on Pinter’s career, his aesthetic and philosophical choices, and his oeuvre as a writer. The section devoted to his individual plays has been arranged in a chronological manner to visually represent the growth of the playwright and the relationship shared between his early and later works. Esslin, known for coining the term ‘theatre of the absurd,’ was himself an inspiration to Pinter and hence, the book records an intellectual and creative exchange between the author and his subject. The book will be of interest to students of literature, drama, history as well as to an academically inclined theatre audience.
Download or read book Old Times written by Harold Pinter and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A middle-aged couple entertain a friend they have not seen for two decades in Pinter's play first presented in London's West End in June, 1971.
Download or read book The Homecoming written by Harold Pinter and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre program.
Download or read book Harold Pinter Plays 1 written by Harold Pinter and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains Harold Pinter's first six plays, including The Birthday Party. The Birthday Party Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by two strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare. 'Mr Pinter's terrifying blend of pathos and hatred fuses unforgettably into the stuff of art.' Sunday Times The Room and The Dumb Waiter In these two early one-act plays, Harold Pinter reveals himself as already in full control of his unique ability to make dramatic poetry of the banalities of everyday speech and the precision with which it defines character. 'Harold Pinter is the most original writer to have emerged from the "new wave" of dramatists who gave fresh life to the British theatre in the fifties and early sixties.' The Times The Hothouse The Hothouse was first produced in 1980, though Harold Pinter wrote the play in 1958, just before commencing work on The Caretaker. In this compelling study of bureaucratic power, we can see the full emergence of a great and original dramatic talent. ' The Hothouse is at once sinister and hilarious, suggesting an unholy alliance of Kafka and Feydeau.' Spectator
Download or read book The Birthday Party written by Harold Pinter and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Birthday Party - Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare. The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic, produced and studied throughout the world.
Download or read book Family Voices written by Harold Pinter and published by Samuel French. This book was released on 1981 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother, her son and dead husband fail to communicate with each other through a series of parallel monologues in the form of letters (probably never mailed). Gradually the facade of a happy family disintegrates into a cauldron of recrimination. Originally a radio play, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, January 1981, before a staged "platform performance" at the National Theatre in February.
