Download or read book The Birthday Party and the Caretaker written by Ronald Knowles and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 1988 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of two of Pinter's most frequently performed and studied plays. It attempts to provide a full account of the playwright's life and explores the themes of vulnerability, dominance and subservience, friendship and betrayal.

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 Harold Pinter written by Bill Naismith and published by Faber & Faber Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to know why Harold Pinter is a figure of such influence and importance in the theatre? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Or do you teach Pinter and need a reliable guide to the plays? The Faber Critical Guide to Harold Pinter gives this and much more, including an introduction to the distinctive features of the playwright's work, a detailed analysis of each of the classic plays and comments on performance.

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 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 Harold Pinter written by Michael Scott and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Party Time written by Harold Pinter and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pinter s Comic Play written by Elin Diamond and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the basis of Harold Pinter's tense comedy and how it functions in his plays as well as covering the major drama from The Room to Other Places. Diamond argues that the metaphysical fear and emptiness so characteristic of the Pinter situation are inseparable from his use and abuse of literary and popular comic traditions.

Download or read book A Study Guide for Harold Pinter s The Birthday Party written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Download or read book The Birthday Party and The Caretaker written by Ronald Knowles and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Language of Silence written by Leslie Kane and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms with the holocaust and its impact on post-war German society.

Download or read book The Hothouse written by Harold Pinter and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1980 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The scene is a government institution, possibly mental or medical and presumably penal, where the inmates are kept behind locked gates and are referred to by number rather than name. In charge is Roote, a pompous ex-colonel who is surely

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter written by Peter Raby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Pinter was one of the world's leading and most controversial writers, and his impact and influence continues to grow. This Companion examines the wide range of Pinter's work - his writing for theatre, radio, television and screen, and also his highly successful work as a director and actor. Substantially updated and revised, this second edition covers the many developments in Pinter's career since the publication of the first edition, including his Nobel Prize for Literature win in 2005, his appearance in Samuel Beckett's play Krapp's Last Tape and recent productions of his plays. Containing essays written by both academics and leading practitioners, the volume places Pinter's writing within the critical and theatrical context of his time and considers its reception worldwide. Including three new essays, new production photographs, five updated and revised chapters and an extended chronology, the Companion provides fresh perspectives on Pinter's work.

Download or read book The Caretaker written by Harold Pinter and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skuespil i den absurde genre om en arbejdssky vagabond, der bliver vicevært hos et par brødre, af hvilke den ene netop har været under behandling for en psykisk lidelse

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 Jennifer Hecate Macbeth William McKinley and Me Elizabeth written by E. L. Konigsburg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two fifth-grade girls, one of whom is the first black child in a middle-income suburb, play at being apprentice witches.

Download or read book Various Voices written by Harold Pinter and published by Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2001 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Prize-winning playwright and political activist offers a personal selection of his poetry, prose, and political writings.