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Biography

Name: Harold Pinter
Birth Date: October 10, 1930
Place of Birth: London, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: playwright

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Biography of Harold Pinter
871 words, approx. 3 pages
The English playwright Harold Pinter (born 1930) ranks among the foremost postwar British dramatists. A master of menace, he invested his plays with an atmosphere of fear, horror, and mystery. Harold Pinter was born on October 10, 1930, the only son of...
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Biography of Harold Pinter
12,677 words, approx. 42 pages
[This entry was updated by Stephen Grecco (Pennsylvania State University) from his entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 315-336.] Harold Pinter, Britain's most significant playwright since Bernard Shaw, was born...
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Biography of Harold Pinter
11,836 words, approx. 40 pages
Harold Pinter, Britain's most significant playwright since Bernard Shaw, was born in Hackney, a small working-class section just beyond the borders of London's East End. He grew up in a modest brick house on Thistlewaite Road, near Clapton Pond, in an...


Quotations
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Harold Pinter Quotes
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Harold Pinter (born 10 October 1930 ) is a British playwright, actor and theatre director. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005. Sourced I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in."...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Harold Pinter Information
10,785 words, approx. 36 pages
Harold Pinter, CH, CBE, Nobel Laureate (born 10 October 1930), is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, poet, and political activist. After publishing poetry as a teenager and acting in school plays, Pinter began his theatrical career in...


News and Journals
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American Theatre
The prime of Harold Pinter.
03/01/1994: 4,046 words, approx. 14 pages
Harold Pinter, at 63 years, is clearly the leading dramatist in the UK. His latest play, 'Moonlight,' is a 75 minute piece that recently opened at London's Almeida Theater. The UK recently celebrated a luncheon in his honor, following his loan to the British...
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Looking At Harold Pinter
04/22/2001: 613 words, approx. 2 pages
ROBERT FELDBERG The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 04-22-2001 LOOKING AT HAROLD PINTER By ROBERT FELDBERG Date: 04-22-2001, Sunday Section: YOUR TIME Edition: All Editions -- Sunday Column: ONSTAGE The plays of Harold Pinter will receive a major retrospective this summer as part...
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AP News
British Library gets Pinter archive
12/11/2007: 337 words, approx. 1 pages
The British Library has acquired the archives of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, including his correspondence with leading figures in theater and literature.The library paid $2.24 million for the archive, which includes Pinter's collection of play scripts which has been on loan to the...
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AP Features
Literature prize winner Lessing drops out of Nobel ceremony due to back problems
11/28/2007: 357 words, approx. 1 pages
British writer Doris Lessing will not be able to travel to Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize in literature on Dec. 10 due to back problems, the Nobel Foundation said Wednesday."Unfortunately her medical advisers have said she must not travel," the foundation said in a...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Arnold P. Hinchliffe
16,782 words, approx. 56 pages
In the following essay, Hinchliffe offers synopses of Pinter's works and of critical responses to them.
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Critical Essay by Walter Kerr
13,498 words, approx. 45 pages
In the following essay, Kerr argues that not only is Pinter an existentialist writer, but that his plays are written in an existentialist manner.
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Critical Essay by Ray Orley
11,487 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following essay, Orley examines the elements of horror and menace in Pinter’s plays
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 86%
Critical Analysis of "the Homecoming"
1,546 words, approx. 5 pages
Harold Pinter's play, The Homecoming, represents a series of urban characters that involves in the family relationships whose prime interest is in wining dominance over another, and the depiction of gender roles which radically severed from traditional family in urban life.
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Essay Grade: 83%
The Development of Ruth Is Central to the Play. Discuss
1,277 words, approx. 4 pages
It is clear in the Harold Pinter play 'The Homecomming' that Ruth's development is central to the play, right from the beginning when she has the upper hand with Teddy and Lenny till the end of the play when she is in complete control of the family.


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