Author: Basil Chiasson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137508167
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This volume is the first to provide a book-length study of Pinter’s overtly political activity. With chapters on political drama, poetry, and speeches, it charts a consistent tension between aesthetics and politics through Pinter’s later career and defines the politics of the work in terms of a pronounced sensory dimension and capacity to affect audiences. The book brings to light unpublished letters and drafts from the Pinter Archive in the British Library and draws his political poems and speeches, which have previously been overshadowed by his plays, into the foreground. Intended for students, instructors, and researchers in drama and theatre, performance studies, literature, and media studies, this book celebrates Pinter’s later life and work by discerning a coherent political voice and project and by registering the complex ways that project troubles the divide between aesthetics and politics.
The Late Harold Pinter
Must You Go?
Author: Antonia Fraser
Publisher: Bond Street Books
ISBN: 0385669100
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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.
Publisher: Bond Street Books
ISBN: 0385669100
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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.
Various Voices
Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802138248
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Hailed by The New York Times as "one of the most important playwrights of our day," Harold Pinter is the author of The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, and The Caretaker--just a few of his plays that have become seminal works in our literary canon. In Various Voices, Pinter presents his own selections from over fifty years of prose, poetry, and political writings, offering insight into the man and his oeuvre. Now in paperback, this edition includes recently written new poems and prose. His nonfiction selections span "A Note on Shakespeare" (1950) to "An Interview with Mireia Aragay" (1996); the short stories begin with "Kullus" (1949) and end with "Tess" (2000); and the poetry ranges from "School Life" (1948) to "They All Rang" (1999). The political writings illustrate the lucidity of Pinter's views on human-rights issues.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802138248
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Hailed by The New York Times as "one of the most important playwrights of our day," Harold Pinter is the author of The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, and The Caretaker--just a few of his plays that have become seminal works in our literary canon. In Various Voices, Pinter presents his own selections from over fifty years of prose, poetry, and political writings, offering insight into the man and his oeuvre. Now in paperback, this edition includes recently written new poems and prose. His nonfiction selections span "A Note on Shakespeare" (1950) to "An Interview with Mireia Aragay" (1996); the short stories begin with "Kullus" (1949) and end with "Tess" (2000); and the poetry ranges from "School Life" (1948) to "They All Rang" (1999). The political writings illustrate the lucidity of Pinter's views on human-rights issues.
Moonlight: Claiming the Wolf / Courage of the Wolf / Her Wicked Wolf / One Night with the Wolf / Her Alpha Protector (Mills & Boon Nocturne)
Author: Michele Hauf
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 147205069X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Werewolves satisfy their darkest cravings...with desire
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 147205069X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Werewolves satisfy their darkest cravings...with desire
The Dwarfs
Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802132666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Only novel by noted English playwright is set in London and comprised mainly of conversations between three male friends and occasionally the woman friend of one of them--conversations that lead to shifts in the relationships. Some strong language. 1990.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802132666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Only novel by noted English playwright is set in London and comprised mainly of conversations between three male friends and occasionally the woman friend of one of them--conversations that lead to shifts in the relationships. Some strong language. 1990.
Mountain Language
Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822207771
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822207771
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
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 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.
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 Theatre of Harold Pinter
Author: Mark Taylor-Batty
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408175312
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Theatre of Harold Pinter offers a unique assesment of one of Britain's most influential dramatists, combining a chronological survey of Pinter's entire work for the stage with a series of incisive critical essays from leading scholars.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408175312
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Theatre of Harold Pinter offers a unique assesment of one of Britain's most influential dramatists, combining a chronological survey of Pinter's entire work for the stage with a series of incisive critical essays from leading scholars.
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
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
99 Poems in Translation
Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571176922
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Celebrating the art of the poet-translator, this pioneering anthology shows how the very heart of the English tradition has been sustained and enriched by translation over the centuries. The three editors have gathered together supreme examples of this art, poems that sing out on the most pressing of human concerns with all the conviction of two voices speaking as one.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571176922
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Celebrating the art of the poet-translator, this pioneering anthology shows how the very heart of the English tradition has been sustained and enriched by translation over the centuries. The three editors have gathered together supreme examples of this art, poems that sing out on the most pressing of human concerns with all the conviction of two voices speaking as one.