Harold Pinter

Second Edition

AvBernard F. Dukore

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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2 308 kr

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Beskrivning

Harold Pinter (1930–2008) was already highly acclaimed in 1988, when this book was originally published, and went on to become one of the most influential modern British dramatists, with a career that spanned over 50 years.This study reveals Pinter’s dramatic and theatrical stratagems and his place in contemporary drama at the time. Five of its eight chapters are devoted to his plays and their performances. Chapter 1 introduces them through short quotations from his plays, each followed by how they show his methods. A biographical survey is next. Chapter 3, “Menace and the Absurd,” treats his early plays, including The Room and The Birthday Party, as “comedies of menace,” a pun on “comedies of manners,” and as theatre of the absurd. Following this, “Toward Greater Realism” explains common features of such plays as The Caretaker. “Struggles for Power” features The Collection and The Homecoming. In “Memory Plays,” Old Times is prominent. “Recapitulations and Fresh Starts” analyses No Man’s Land, Betrayal, and A Kind of Alaska. Stage productions are a vital part of these discussions of his plays. Finally, “The Place of Pinter” summarizes his oeuvre and his position in English drama.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-01
Mått:129 x 198 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Revivals
Antal sidor:180
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041363774

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Bernard F. Dukore is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Theatre Arts and Humanities at Virginia Tech, USA. He has written extensively on Bernard Shaw and other modern dramatists, including Shaw’s fellow-Nobel prizewinner, Harold Pinter. His most recent books on Shaw are Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw (2017), Bernard Shaw and the Censors: Fights and Failures, Stage and Screen (2020), and Unions, Strikes, Shaw: “The Capitalism of the Proletariat” (2022).

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Reviews for the original edition:‘a truly creative effort in assimilating recurrent concerns through…years of Pinter playwrighting…Dukore makes some unique contributions which are likely to expand our structural perceptions of Pinter’s work’. – Modern Drama‘will, I am sure, give the next generation of Pinter students a clearer introduction and, hopefully, a fuller practical involvement in realising his work on stage. What more can one ask?’ – Drama Broadsheet

Innehållsförteckning

Editor’s Preface. Prefatory Note. Note to Second Edition. 1. Introduction 2. Biographical Survey 3. Menace and the Absurd 4. Toward Greater Realism 5. Struggles for Power 6. Memory Plays 7. Recapitulations and Fresh Starts 8. The Place of Pinter. References. Bibliography. Index.

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