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...
[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...
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...
The Caretaker is a play by the Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, first published in 1959. It was Pinter’s sixth stage/TV play and was the work that gave him his first significant commercial success. It was first performed at the Arts Theatre, London on 27...
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OVER THE YEARS, SUSAN AND EARL BOWICK HAVE BUILT A NATIVE AMERICAN ART COLLECTION THEY FEEL PRIVILEGED TO DISPLAY FROM THE DECK of Susan and Earl Bowick's Vail, CO, home, a pair of hummingbirds try in vain to taste the nectar of jewel-colored...
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In the following essay, Murphy focuses on The Caretaker, explaining the importance of attending to action indicated by the stage directions as much as to the dialogue in Pinter's plays.
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