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Harold Pinter is one of the most prolific of living British authors, with a writing career so far of fifty-eight years. This bibliographical history provides a comprehensive account of the print-published writings, and texts in other media, which he has wholly or partly authored, and will be a valuable resource for all who have a scholarly interest in modern British literature. Pre-minently an oustanding playwright, a creator of texts in dramatic form for live theatre, radio, television or cinema, Pinter has also composed a significant body of poetry, some short stories, a novel, and a large number of non-fictional prose writings. Interviews, recorded in print and other media, interview-based articles and other texts are documented here, as are texts generated from Pinter's wide-ranging interest in literary projects, human rights and political causes, with forewords to books, short notes, jointly authored letters, signatures to petitions, declarations and other material. ... Read more

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This study focuses on the ways in which Harold Pinter conceives of and dramatizes time according to the medium in which he is working. It goes beyond Pinter's fascination with false and true memory to trace the various textual and non-textual strategies he employs to distort sequence and duration in his plays. This book shows how Pinter undermines the temporal assumptions of naturalism and realism to form a relativistic world in which time is a central feature. ... Read more

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Best known as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, Harold Pinter has also written many highly regarded screenplays, including Academy Award-nominated screenplays for The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Betrayal, collaborations with English director Joseph Losey, and an unproduced script for the remake of Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 adaptation of Lolita.

In this definitive study of Pinter’s screenplays, Steven H. Gale compares the scripts with their sources and the resulting films, analyzes their stages of development, and shows how Pinter creates unique works of art by extracting the essence from his source and rendering it in cinematic terms. Gale introduces each film, traces the events that led to the script’s writing, examines critical reaction to the film, and provides an extensive bibliography, appendices, and an index. ... Read more

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This biography is one of a series of introductions to major 19th and 20th century dramatists, aiming to reveal Pinter's dramatic and theatrical strategems and his place in contemporary drama. There are five chapters devoted to his plays and their performance. The author has also written "American Dramatists"(1918-1945), "Where Laughter Stops", "Pinter's Tragicomedy", "Dramatic Theory and Criticism", "Bernard Shaw Playwright" and "Bernard Shaw Director". ... Read more

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This study offers a consideration of Nobel Prize-winning dramatist, Harold Pinter's output as a playwright, from The Room (1957) to Celebration (2000), paying particular attention to how his plays operate as dramatic experiences that often defy convention and expectation. ... Read more

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Pinter and the Jewish mind
Magnificant extensive analysis of Pinter's theatre digging up correspondences of all sorts (biblical, cultural, linguistic) between Pinter's obsessive themes and language and some widely recognized peculiarities of Jewish psychology and expression. The book is very well documented and would deserve an English translation. ... Read more