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The Homecoming Lesson Plan
35,547 words, approx. 119 pages
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| 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...



Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Homecoming Information
5,514 words, approx. 18 pages
 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...




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 Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
Homecoming
11/08/2005: 628 words, approx. 2 pages 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...
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Pinter dissects a combative family
12/17/2007: 547 words, approx. 2 pages 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...
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 The New York Observer
Dadwood! HBO Actor Now Playing Pinter Patriarch
1/10/2008: 453 words, approx. 2 pages “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...



Literary Criticism
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Thomas Postlewait
7,170 words, approx. 24 pages
 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. "
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Critical Essay by Hugh Nelson
7,022 words, approx. 23 pages
 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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Critical Essay by John M. Warner
5,543 words, approx. 19 pages
 In the following essay, Warner argues that The Homecoming asks the audience to reevaluate their expectations and values.


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