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 Homecoming is a two-act play written by 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter in 1964 and first published in 1965. Set in North London, the play has six characters: five men who are related––Max, a retired butcher, and Sam, a...
They staffed the concession stands at the football game, blew up balloons for the homecoming dance, started to pepper their speech with "y'alls" and then made plans to stay in touch. Forty students and 13 adults from Lampeter-Strasburg High School who revived a homecoming...
August 4, 2007 marks my 20th High School Reunion with Colegio San AgustÃn Makati. So, my husband and are taking the long trek from Montara, California to Manila to attend the homecoming festivities at the Urdaneta Clubhouse in Makati. Well, technically, I'm part...
Just in time for the holidays comes another bilious family reunion: a revival of "The Homecoming," Harold Pinter's masterful, acid-etched portrait of a tyrannical father and his three sons, undone by a savvy, sexually aware woman.Now well into middle age, the play (first seen on...
“What’s great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work,” said Ian McShane, sitting in a worn chair with pea-soup-green cushions on the Cort Theater stage. He was discussing his role as the maniacal patriarch in Harold Pinter’s The...
In the following essay, Postlewait examines Harold Pinter's The Homecoming as a transformation of the drama of Henrik Ibsen, which explores "the sexual politics of bourgeois family life. "
In the following essay, Nelson explicates The Homecoming by associating it with the biblical stories of the Prodigal Son and Ruth, and with Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.
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