Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter, Paperback

This volume contains the complete short plays of Pinter from The Room, first performed in 1960, to Celebration, which premiered in 2000.

Michael Billington brings up to date The Life and Work of Harold Pinter with an additional chapter and plate section covering the years 1996-2006.

Features the plays >The Caretaker<, >Night School<, >The Dwarfs<, >The Collection< and >The Lover<. Also included are five revue sketches written d...

Includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man's Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a short story. This title contains the speech given b...

Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): Harold PinterNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 1997Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Reducere. One of the most essential artists produced by the twentieth century. Pinter s work gets under our skin more than that of any living playwright. "Ne...

Produced at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 1980. This play was revived by the National Theatre, London, in July 2007.

This play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdown of communication, broadly in the tradition of ...

When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit London and his family, he finds himself prey to old conflicts. But...

Reducere. Like Pinter's earlier plays. Pinter deals with bare essentials. There are only three characters -- a man named Deeley, his wife, Kate, and Anna, a ...

After an initially guarded response from the critics, the work was rapidly reevaluated and won the Olivier Award for Best New Play the following ye...

Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nigh...

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Goldberg and McCann arrive at a seaside boarding house where Meg and Petey live with their guest Stanley. They inquire about Stanley: we soon find ...

Do you want to know why Harold Pinter is a figure of such influence and importance in the theatre? The Faber Critical Guide to Harold Pinter gives ...

"What would Harold have thought of Trump?" Antonia FraserThe Pres and the Officer was discovered by Antonia Fraser on one of the yellow pads Harold...

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