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 essay, Cardullo explicates the significance of Teddy's Uncle Sam in Pinter's The Homecoming.
At the end of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, right before Teddy l...
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In the following review, Morley praises Pinter's The Homecoming as a magnificently plotted drama that is both comic and sinister.
Why were we always so afraid to laugh at, or at any rate wit...
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In the following essay, Bernard comments that Pinter's The Homecoming is structured around a contrast between America and England, according to which America represents a fantasized promised la...
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In the following review, Benedictus suggests that The Homecoming is a metaphorical representation of Pinter's relation to playwriting and to his audience.
Surely Mr. Harold Pinter is somethi...
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In the following essay, Morris discusses The Homecoming as a comedy of manners with a tragic theme.
Peer Gynt. … You seem busy here today—a christening? Or a wedding feast?
Man in...
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In the following essay, States examines the use and significance of irony in characterization, situation, and language in Pinter's The Homecoming.
Teddy: You wouldn't understand my wo...
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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.
Without except...
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In the following essay, Warner argues that The Homecoming asks the audience to reevaluate their expectations and values.
No one denied the brilliance of the Royal Shakespeare Company's produ...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
The least of The Homecoming's troubles is that it does not make sense. This only stirs the interpreters, professional and amateur, to greater heights of interpreta...
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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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Teaching The Homecoming
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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 ...
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“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 s...
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Marija Serifovic was given a hero's welcome by some 30,000 fans when she returned to Serbia after winning the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest in Finland."Ave, Marija," read one of the banners in the c...
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Sailor Ken Barnes, who was rescued last week from his storm-damaged sailboat off the tip of South America, returned home Tuesday to hugs from his family and well-wishers.The 47-year-old said he was...
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Dozens of orangutans trained to box each other in a Thai amusement park returned home Wednesday to start a new life in a jungle reserve on their native island of Borneo, officials said.
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Belgrade (dpa) - Red Star Belgrade on Saturday defended the
Serbian title with a win over archrivals Partizan with three rounds
to go in the national championship and is hot...
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NEW YORK, Nov 14 (Reuters) - The Boston Red Sox will open
the defence of their World Series crown in Japan next season
with a two-game series against the Oakland Athletics, Major
League Baseball a...
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Manuela Testolini Nelson, 29, aptly baptized The Woman Formerly Known as Prince's Wife, filed for divorce on May 24 at Hennepin County District Court in Prince's home state of Minnesota, but the Mi...
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One of the good things about our military is that it connects people, with each unit drawing a web of mothers and fathers and sisters and cousins and friends into a vast extended family. And like a...
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A year without a new play by Sir David Hare can’t be all bad—and so it happily proved.
Top of my list is the stunning, imaginative achievement of Gregory Burke...
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Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter
Critical Essay by Bert Cardullo
Pinter dissects a combative family
