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The Hothouse Information
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The Hothouse is a play written by Harold Pinter between two of his best-known early plays, The Birthday Party and The Caretaker. After writing The Hothouse in the winter of 1958, Pinter shelved the play following the initial commercial failure of The...


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The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Hothouse.
08/13/2006: 1,062 words, approx. 4 pages
Byline: SARAH HARTLEY SARAH HARTLEY'S PROPERTY GOSSIP Heard any Hothouse gossip? email Sarah on hothouse mailonsunday.co.uk A dry run for Paul's empire Head-turning actor Paul Nicholls has just moved out of his luxury one-bedroom flat in Jubilee Heights, in the...
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Ralph Fiennes stars at National Theatre
2/15/2007: 428 words, approx. 1 pages
A new drama about the arms trade and an adaptation of a beloved war film are highlights of the coming season at Britain's National Theatre, artistic director Nicholas Hytner announced Thursday.Future productions include star turns for Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche.Among the National's 2007-2008 shows...
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Grateful Dead items to be auctioned
5/8/2007: 548 words, approx. 2 pages
During their heyday, the Grateful Dead promised in their folksy lyrics to "steal your face right off your head."Deadheads could figuratively lose their shirts Tuesday, when big bidders were expected to push up prices during an auction of memorabilia collected by the group's longtime road...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Rudolph Stamm
4,524 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following essay, Stamm praises The Hothouse, an early play Pinter originally suppressed, but then produced in 1980.
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Critical Review by Sheridan Morley
739 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Morley asserts that a central theme of Hothouse is a triangular power struggle between the characters. Morley comments that Hothouse is both sinister and hilarious.
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Critical Essay by Robert Brustein
484 words, approx. 2 pages
The Hothouse is hardly the best written of Pinter's works or the most exquisitely engineered, but it has a kind of unbuttoned, careening energy I find impossible to resist, and it suggests a road he might have taken had he not chosen to perfect the art of tergiversation. Most of Pinter's plays are not so much suggestive as evasive; his fondness for textual lacunae lays the burden of specificity on the actor. Since actors are hardly reluctant to comply, Pinter's scenes tend to move down ...


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