Must You Go?

Must You Go? PDF Author: Antonia Fraser
Publisher: Bond Street Books
ISBN: 0385669100
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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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.

Must You Go?

Must You Go? PDF Author: Antonia Fraser
Publisher: Bond Street Books
ISBN: 0385669100
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Book Description
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.

The caretaker

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

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The Essential Pinter

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

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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.

The Lover

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

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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.

Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter PDF Author: James R. Hollis
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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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.

The Dwarfs

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

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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

Harold Pinter and the Twilight of Modernism

Harold Pinter and the Twilight of Modernism PDF Author: Varun Begley
Publisher:
ISBN: 0802038875
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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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.

The Birthday Party, and The Room

The Birthday Party, and The Room PDF Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802151148
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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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.

Old Times

Old Times PDF Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571301002
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 77

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Old Times was first presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 1 June 1971. It was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in July 2004. ' Old Times is a joyous, wonderful play that people will talk about as long as we have a theatre.' New York Times 'What am I writing about? Not the weasel under the cocktail cabinet . . . I can sum up none of my plays. I can describe none of them, except to say: that is what happened. This is what they said. That is what they did.' Harold Pinter

plays, 6 revue sketches, a short story and a speech

plays, 6 revue sketches, a short story and a speech PDF Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571193837
Category : English
Languages : en
Pages : 399

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