The Short Plays of Harold Pinter

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Esslin, Martin. The Peopled Wound: The Work of Harold Pinter. London: Methuen, 1970. ISBN 0-416-10910-1 (10). ISBN 978-0-416-10910-8 (13). [Periodically revised, expanded, and updated editions published as Pinter the Playwright.] Pinter’s dramatic works could be divided into three phases. The first phase of his writing includes the savor of absurdity and menace hovers throughout his earliest plays. The second interval is related to more touches on past and memory and within the third phase of his drama completely turns to political ones. But in all three phases, Pinter always withholds reality in his works identical because the constant reality in his political works, which is named ‘political reality’. Bob Bows, 'The Birthday Party': *** (out of four stars)", The Denver Post, denverpost.com, 11 April 2008, World Wide Web, 10 May 2008. Roundabout Theatre Company, New York City. Directed by David Jones. Set design: John Beatty, Costume design: Jane Greenwood, Lighting: Peter Lezorowski. Design: Scott Lehrer. Naismith, Bill. Harold Pinter. Faber Critical Guides. London: Faber and Faber, 2000. ISBN 0-571-19781-7 (10). ISBN 978-0-571-19781-1 (13).

The Homecoming directly challenges the place of morals in family life and puts their social value "under erasure" (in Derridean terminology). Teddy's profession as an academic philosopher, which, he claims, enables him to "maintain ... intellectual equilibrium" — From 8 to 24 May 2008, the Lyric celebrated the play's 50th anniversary with a revival, directed by David Farr, as well as related events. They included a gala performance and reception, hosted by Harold Pinter, on 19 May 2008, exactly fifty years after its London première. [11] [15] [18] [19] Interpretation [ edit ] This act opens with the men's ritual of sharing the lighting of cigars, traditionally associated with phallic imagery after lunch. Teddy's cigar goes out prematurely, the symbolism of which is clear. [3] Michael Billington, Harold Pinter, rev. and expanded ed. of The Life and Work of Harold Pinter (1996; London: Faber and Faber, 2007) 76. (Subsequent parenthetical references to this edition appear in the text.) The Handmaid's Tale" (1987) — unpublished credited screenplay commissioned for the 1990 film The Handmaid's Tale

For a review of the Sheffield Theatres production, see Lyn Gardner, "Theatre: The Caretaker: Crucible, Sheffield", Guardian, Culture: Theatre. Guardian Media Group, 20 October 2006. Web. 12 March 2009. The Proust Screenplay (1972) — published 1978, but unproduced for film; adapted by Harold Pinter and director Di Trevis for the stage (2000); cf. Remembrance of Things Past a b c Ben Brantley, "Theater Review: The Homecoming (Cort Theater): You Can Go Home Again, But You'll Pay the Consequences", The New York Times 17 December 2007, The Arts: E1, 7, accessed 10 March 2014. Harold Pinter (1930–2008) at The Poetry Archive – Includes audio recording by Harold Pinter of "It Is Here", "Later", and "Episode" made on 16 December 2002 at The Audio Workshop, London, as produced by Richard Carrington

Harold Pinter, Faber Critical Guides (London: Faber and Faber, 2000) 57: The setting evokes " Basingstoke and Maidenhead, southern towns ... and ... London – in both Goldberg and Stanley's reminiscences."Edinburgh Gateway Company (1965), The Twelve Seasons of the Edinburgh Gateway Company, 1953 - 1965, St. Giles Press, Edinburgh, p. 53 Occasionally, one finds critics of the play, aware of Pinter's reputation for ambiguity, questioning even Teddy's and Ruth's references to the fact of their "being married"; e.g., Harold Hobson, as cited by Merritt: "Hobson's interpretation of Teddy as merely pretending to be Ruth's husband and a professor of philosophy enables him to rationalize the man's behavior toward his wife." [17] Works of Harold Pinter provides a list of Harold Pinter's stage and television plays; awards and nominations for plays; radio plays; screenplays for films; awards and nominations for screenwriting; dramatic sketches; prose fiction; collected poetry; and awards for poetry. It augments a section of the main article on this author.