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The Homecoming by 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...
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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...
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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...
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In the following essay, Cardullo explicates the significance of Teddy's Uncle Sam in Pinter's The Homecoming.
At the end of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, right before Teddy leav...
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In the following review, Morley praises Pinter's The Homecoming as a magnificently plotted drama that is both comic and sinister.
Why were we always so afraid to laugh at, or at any rate with, ...
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In the following essay, Bernard comments that Pinter's The Homecoming is structured around a contrast between America and England, according to which America represents a fantasized promised la...
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In the following review, Benedictus suggests that The Homecoming is a metaphorical representation of Pinter's relation to playwriting and to his audience.
Surely Mr. Harold Pinter is something ...
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In the following essay, Morris discusses The Homecoming as a comedy of manners with a tragic theme.
Peer Gynt. … You seem busy here today—a christening? Or a wedding feast?
Man in Mourn...
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In the following essay, States examines the use and significance of irony in characterization, situation, and language in Pinter's The Homecoming.
Teddy: You wouldn't understand my works...
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In the following essay, Nelson explicates The Homecoming by associating it with the biblical stories of the Prodigal Son and Ruth, and with Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.
Without exception...
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In the following essay, Warner argues that The Homecoming asks the audience to reevaluate their expectations and values.
No one denied the brilliance of the Royal Shakespeare Company's producti...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
The least of The Homecoming's troubles is that it does not make sense. This only stirs the interpreters, professional and amateur, to greater heights of interpretat...
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In the following essay, Postlewait examines Harold Pinter's The Homecoming as a transformation of the drama of Henrik Ibsen, which explores "the sexual politics of bourgeois family life....
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Teaching The Homecoming
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Critical Essay by Bert Cardullo
