SOURCE: “Harold Pinter's Theatre of Cruelty,” in Pinter at Sixty, edited by Katherine H. Burkman and John L. Kundert-Gibbs, Indiana University Press, 1993, pp. 27-36.
In the following essay, Esslin traces the depiction of cruelty in Pinter's plays from the metaphysical realm in his early plays to the actual realm in later plays as Pinter became more politically aware.
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