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

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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.

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

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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.

The Short Plays of Harold Pinter

The Short Plays of Harold Pinter PDF Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Faber & Faber Plays
ISBN: 9780571349913
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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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.

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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Mountain Language

Mountain Language PDF Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822207771
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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THE STORY: Furthering the theme of political consciousness expressed so forcefully and eloquently in his earlier play One for the Road, the author's present play takes place in an anonymous country where individual liberties have been forfeited to the state. Set in a prison where the inmates are forbidden to speak their own language, the play is comprised of four terse, arresting scenes which make masterful use of nuance and subtle understatement (with sudden bursts of violence) to create an overwhelming sense of terror and shocking futility. In one scene uniformed officers taunt and belittle the women who have come to visit their men, who are political prisoners; in another a mother and son are allowed to speak only in the language of the capital, which they do not know; in the third scene a young woman accidentally sees a guard holding a limp, tortured man whom she knows to be her husband; and, in the final scene the old woman reunited with her bloody, trembling son and, though told she may now speak, she has been silenced so long that she cannot, or will not, do so. Quintessentially Pinteresque in its skillful use of pregnant pauses, resonant images and nightmarish utterances, the play is both enthralling theatre and a stirring reminder of what can happen when the power of the state becomes all-encompassing and the rights of the individual are forfeited, whether through neglect or weakness of will.

The Dwarfs

The Dwarfs PDF Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 080219172X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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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

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.

A Slight Ache

A Slight Ache PDF Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Samuel French Limited
ISBN: 9780573022494
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 27

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Flora and Edward invite the match seller into their home. The match seller is silent; faced with this silence, Edward destroys himself while Flora gains strength, until finally Flora turns Edward out with the tray of matches. The midsummer's day which began with Edward having a 'slight ache' ends in his total disintegration.

Complete Works

Complete Works PDF Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802150509
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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This work collects some of the author's most famous writings, including plays, short stories, and essays.

No Man's Land

No Man's Land PDF Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802192270
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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“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.

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

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