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Author | : Basil Chiasson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2017-08-09 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1137508167 |
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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 The book brings to light unpublished letters and drafts from the Pinter Archive in the British Library and draws his political poems and speeches, which have previously been overshadowed by his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.
Author | : Antonia Fraser |
Publisher | : Bond Street Books |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2010-11-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0385669100 |
Download Must You Go? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Harold Pinter |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780822207771 |
Download Mountain Language Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Varun Begley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0802038875 |
Download Harold Pinter and the Twilight of Modernism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : D. Keith Peacock |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1997-09-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Download Harold Pinter and the New British Theatre Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Harold Pinter is universally described as Britain's leading dramatist. This book evaluates the justification for this appellation. It examines his work in relation to changes taking place in the New British Theatre after the so-called theatrical revolution of 1956, and draws attention to those autobiographical experiences that have been transmuted into his art. Beginning with a look at the nature of British theatre prior to 1956, Peacock then describes Pinter's early life in the East End of London, his career as an actor, and his early writing. The discussion follows Pinter's life and work from ^IThe Room^R in 1957 to his most recent play, Ashes to Ashes in 1996. The author argues that although Pinter has not instigated an aesthetic revolution, he has, more significantly, through his representation of human behavior, provoked a new way of viewing the world.
Author | : Harold Pinter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : English |
ISBN | : 9780571193837 |
Download plays, 6 revue sketches, a short story and a speech Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Harold Pinter |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2015-01-27 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 080219172X |
Download The Dwarfs Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“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
Author | : Harold Pinter |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 77 |
Release | : 2012-11-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0571301002 |
Download Old Times Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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
Author | : Peter Raby |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2009-03-19 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521886090 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Updated edition of this popular Companion examining the wide range of Pinter's work, and his continuing impact and influence.
Author | : M. Regal |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 1995-09-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780333607619 |
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Harold Pinter: A Question of Timing focuses on the ways in which Pinter conceives of and dramatises time according to the particular medium with which he is working. It goes beyond Pinter's obvious fascination with false and true memory to trace the various textual and non-textual strategies he employs to distort sequence and duration in his plays. Further, it shows how Pinter undermines the temporal assumptions of naturalism and realism to form a uniquely relativistic world in which time is a central feature.