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, Morley applauds a production of Pinter's The Caretaker that emphasizes the comic elements of the play.
Now here's a funny thing, and it happens rather surpris...
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In the following review, Alvarez complains that, despite an excellent production, The Caretaker is disappointing because, in it, Pinter repeats what he has “already done better in other plays.&...
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In the following review, Simon can find nothing of value in The Caretaker.
Not since Joanna Southcote announced that she would give birth to the Messiah, have there been such public pangs and heavi...
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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.
A man went rushing into a building. ‘Fir...
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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.
Few ...
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Teaching The Caretaker
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Scandal-tainted nursing-care service operator Comsn Inc. is in
trouble with the parents of a 3-year-old boy who died after his
condition of congenital cardiac disease suddenly worsened while ...
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Dhaka (dpa) - Bangladesh's army chief General Moeen U Ahmed has
said the prevailing situation in the country has not reached such a
stage that the military needs to take ove...
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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 electio...
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Dhaka (dpa) - The two major political parties in Bangladesh
took respite from bitter rivalry Friday to mount pressure on
the military-backed interim government to lift the e...
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DHAKA, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Bangladesh formally declared its
judiciary free from executive control on Thursday as part of
legal reforms aimed at ensuring justice for all. The Supreme Court will appoi...
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Dhaka (dpa) - Prominent political parties in Bangladesh have
called for the immediate lifting of a state of emergency prior to
this year's general election that would restor...
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The opposition Pakistan Peoples Party of assassinated former
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Thursday formally asked the
Pakistani government to seek a U.N. probe into her killing in the
ga...
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Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter
Critical Review by Sheridan Morley
Comsn in trouble with parents of boy who died in its care
