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The Birthday Party Lesson Plan
37,576 words, approx. 125 pages
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| 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. 2.9 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 a...
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Biography of Harold Pinter
12677 words, approx. 42.3 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 in...
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Biography of Harold Pinter
11836 words, approx. 39.5 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 ar...



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The Birthday Party Information
3,852 words, approx. 13 pages
 The Birthday Party is the first full-length play by Harold Pinter. Although it is now one of Pinter's best-known plays[attribution needed], The Birthday Party was a commercial and mostly critical failure when originally performed in the West End...




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Parents turn against birthdays gone wild
1/22/2007: 618 words, approx. 2 pages Having decided on a ballerina theme for her daughter's sixth birthday party, Michelle West drove all over to find little dancers for the cake. Then she put 50 little beefeater guards around the edges. And she gave it beautiful white icing with peppermint trim.And what...
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Wiesenthal Center demands mayor resign
3/2/2007: 356 words, approx. 1 pages The Simon Wiesenthal Center demanded the immediate resignation of the governor of Austria's Tyrol province and other local politicians Thursday for throwing a 90th birthday party for a former Gestapo operative.The Los Angeles-based group expressed "anger and frustration" that Gov. Herwig von Staa and other...
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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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A Nasty Peek Behind the Iron Curtain
1/22/2008: 533 words, approx. 2 pages 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS Running Time 113 minutes Written and Directed by Cristian Mungiu Starring Anamaria Marinca and Laura Vasiliu Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, from his own screenplay, continues the Romanian cinematic renaissance that followed the overthrow...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Michael W. Kaufman
5,136 words, approx. 17 pages
 In the following essay, Kaufman argues that the game of blindman's buff, central to The Birthday Party, provides an expressive structure for what Pinter sees as inherent human traits: a struggle for mastery and hostility.
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Critical Essay by Simon O. Lesser
4,169 words, approx. 14 pages
 In the following explication of The Birthday Party, Lesser compares Pinter's worldview to that of Kafka's.


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