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 review, Campbell praises The Birthday Party for its effective humor and tone of menace. Campbell comments that The Birthday Party is “seen as one of the defining plays of post-...
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In the following essay, Edelman explicates a one-line reference to the game of cricket in Pinter's The Birthday Party.
Goldberg and McCann's interrogation of Stanley, in Harold Pinter...
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In the following review, Hewes commends the San Francisco Actor's Workshop for maintaining a roster of quality offerings, and praises its production of The Birthday Party.
What happens to mo...
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In the following review, Beaufort praises the mood of “macabre menace” Pinter evokes in a production of The Birthday Party, which he also directed.
Meg: What do they do then?
Pete...
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In the following explication of The Birthday Party, Lesser compares Pinter's worldview to that of Kafka's.
One cannot, and probably should not, write about Pinter without facing his s...
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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 struggl...
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In the following essay, Bogumil looks at the role and meaning of games in The Birthday Party.
The sense of post-war malaise and uncertainty is evoked through the use of gameplaying in Harold Pinter...
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Critical Essay by Peter Thomson
Most loyal theatregoers tried to dismiss [The Birthday Party (1958)], but it wouldn't go away. You could say that the world of the play was unreal, but it was i...
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Teaching The Birthday Party
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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 Gesta...
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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...
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Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, from ...
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Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter
Critical Review by James Campbell
Parents turn against birthdays gone wild
