The Caretaker and the Dumb Waiter

Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802150875
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
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.

The Essential Pinter

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.

The caretaker

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

Book Description

Harold Pinter

Author: Bill Naismith
Publisher: Faber & Faber Limited
ISBN: 9780571197811
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
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.

Pinter Problem

Author: Austin E. Quigley
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400872405
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
In spite of steady growth in popularity, Pinter's plays have continued to elude adequate critical appraisal. Considering the last decade's scholarship, Austin E. Quigley attributes the impasse in Pinter criticism to the failure of Pinter's readers to appreciate the diversity of ways in which language can transmit information. This explanation places recent commentaries in a new light and enables the author to take a fresh approach to the plays themselves. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter

Author: Mary F. Brewer
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042025565
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
This collection of essays focuses on one of Harold Pinter's most popular and challenging plays, The Dumb Waiter, while addressing also a range of significant issues current in Pinter studies and which are applicable beyond this play. The interesting and provocative dialogues between established and emerging scholars featured here provide close readings of The Dumb Waiter, within relevant cultural and historical contexts and from a range of theoretical perspectives. The essays range over issues of autobiography and theater, genre studies, and the impact of Pinter's political activism on his dramatic production, among others. The collection is also concerned with the meaning of the play when assessed against other example's of Pinter's work, both dramatic and non-dramatic writing. Each contributor shows a gift for presenting a complex argument in an accessible style, making this book an important resource for a wide range of readers, from undergraduates to postgraduates and specialist researchers. The collection offers essays that approach The Dumb Waiter, from an interdisciplinary perspective and as both a literary and dramatic text. Thus, the book should be of equal significance to those encountering Pinter within the context of English Studies, drama, and performance.

The Room

Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780573022364
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
Rose and Bert rent a room that might almost be a paleolithic cave; the outside is terrifying and unknown. Rose never goes out, Bert only goes to drive his van with furious aggression. A young couple call, and then a blind black man. Bert comes home, massive with triumph at smashing every car that challenged his van. Finding the stranger he kicks him to death and Rose goes blind.

The Birthday Party, and The Room

Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802151148
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
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.

The Hothouse

Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822205357
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
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

A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880 - 2005

Author: Mary Luckhurst
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470751479
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 608

Book Description
This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.