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The Caretaker by Harold Pinter

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Author Biography

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 Caretaker Information
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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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The Washington Post
Shamir the Caretaker
11/04/1988: 892 words, approx. 3 pages
Everyone from Ronald Reagan to Yasser Arafat wanted the Labor party to win this week's Israeli election. Everyone, that is, except a majority of Israelis. Inconveniently, they split their vote right down the middle. Well, not quite. They gave enough new support to...
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Southwest Art
Caretakers Of Art
08/01/2007: 1,434 words, approx. 5 pages
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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AP News
More than 2,500 arrested in Bangladesh
1/13/2007: 315 words, approx. 1 pages
Bangladeshi police and soldiers have arrested more than 2,500 people and raided the homes of several political leaders after a new caretaker government was sworn in to quell unrest ahead of elections, police and news reports said Saturday.Security forces arrested 2,552 people, including 195 from...
 


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Critical Essay by Robert P. Murphy
4,284 words, approx. 14 pages
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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Critical Essay by Valerie Minogue
2,353 words, approx. 8 pages
In the following essay, Minogue argues that reviewers of The Caretaker focused too much on Pinter's style and ignored the content of the play.
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Critical Review by Sheridan Morley
992 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Morley applauds a production of Pinter's The Caretaker that emphasizes the comic elements of the play.
 


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