SOURCE: “Pinter,” in Six Dramatists in Search of a Language: Studies in Dramatic Language, Cambridge University Press, 1975, pp. 165-91.
In the following essay, Kennedy surveys Pinter's use of language, examining how he abstracts it from concrete meaning and makes language a dramatic rather than discursive element in his plays.
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