Mountain Language Summary
Harold Pinter

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When Mountain Language opened at the National Theatre in London on October 20, 1988, the audience was shocked by the play's stark look at the machinations and effects of totalitarianism. Employing the characteristic structure and style of his previous plays, Harold Pinter focused on new subject matter. Drawing his inspiration from the long history of oppression the Kurds suffered under Turkish rule, Pinter centered his play in a prison controlled by unnamed guards in an...

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Harold Pinter Biographies (3)

Harold Pinter

846 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 P... Read more

Harold Pinter

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[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 s... Read more

Harold Pinter

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Biography EssayHarold 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... Read more

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