The Dwarfs

The Dwarfs PDF Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 080219172X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
“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

The Lover

The Lover PDF Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822207047
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
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.

The caretaker

The caretaker PDF Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780802150967
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description

The Essential Pinter

The Essential Pinter PDF Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802142696
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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

No Man's Land

No Man's Land PDF Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802192270
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 51

Book Description
“An oblique comedy of menace, unsettling, exquisitely wrought and written . . . a complex excursion into the by now familiar Pinter world of mixed reality and fantasy, of human worth and human degradation.” —New York Times Set against the decayed elegance of a house in London’s Hampstead Heath, in No Man’s Land two men face each other over a drink. Do they know each other, or is each performing an elaborate character of recognition? Their ambiguity—and the comedy—intensify with the arrival of two younger men, the one ostensibly a manservant, the other a male secretary. All four inhabit a no man’s land between time present and time remembered, between reality and imagination—a territory which Pinter explores with his characteristic mixture of biting wit, aggression, and anarchic sexuality.

The Short Plays of Harold Pinter

The Short Plays of Harold Pinter PDF Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571349927
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 625

Book Description
This volume contains the complete short plays of Harold Pinter from The Room, first performed in 1960, to Celebration, which premiered in 2000.The book commemorates the tenth anniversary of the playwright's death and coincides with Pinter at the Pinter, a celebratory season staging twenty of his one-act plays at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, 2018.With a foreword by Antonia Fraser. 'The foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the twentieth century.' Swedish Academy citation on awarding Harold Pinter the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2005.

One for the Road

One for the Road PDF Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 9780802151889
Category : Political plays, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Pinter in Play

Pinter in Play PDF Author: Susan Hollis Merritt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
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.
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