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| harold pinter short plays: The Short Plays of Harold Pinter Harold Pinter, 2018-09-04 This volume contains the complete short plays of Harold Pinter from The Room, first performed in 1960, to Celebration, which premiered in 2000. The book commemorates the tenth anniversary of the playwright's death and coincides with Pinter at the Pinter, a celebratory season staging twenty of his one-act plays at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, 2018. With a foreword by Antonia Fraser. 'The foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the twentieth century.' Swedish Academy citation on awarding Harold Pinter the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2005. |
| harold pinter short plays: Landscape ; And, Silence Harold Pinter, 1969 |
| harold pinter short plays: Celebration & The Room Harold Pinter, 2013-07-18 A restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It's a celebration. Violent, wildly funny, Harold Pinter's new play displays a vivid zest for life. In The Room, Harold Pinter's first play, he reveals himself as already in full control of his unique ability to make dramatic poetry of the banalities of everyday speech and the precision with which it defines character. Harold Pinter's latest play, Celebration, and his first play, The Room directed by the author himself, premièred as a double-bill at London's Almeida Theatre in March 2000. |
| harold pinter short plays: The Short Plays of Harold Pinter Harold Pinter, 2018 This volume contains the complete short plays of Harold Pinter from The Room, first performed in 1960, to Celebration, which premiered in 2000. The book commemorates the tenth anniversary of the playwright's death and coincides with Pinter at the Pinter, a celebratory season staging twenty of his one-act plays at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, 2018. With a foreword by Antonia Fraser. 'The foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the twentieth century.' Swedish Academy citation on awarding Harold Pinter the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2005. |
| harold pinter short plays: Victoria Station Harold Pinter, 1982 The dispatcher has a great job lined up and the only mini-cab available is 274. Problem is, 274, who says he has fallen in love with the passenger who is asleep (or is she dead?) on his back seat, doesn't seem to know his own location, much less that of Victoria Station. |
| harold pinter short plays: One for the Road Harold Pinter, 1984 |
| harold pinter short plays: The Dwarfs Harold Pinter, 2015-01-27 “A fascinating work . . . possessing extraordinary power. Masterful.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Brilliant, cranky, and eccentric, and the narrative passages are some of the most thrilling ever written.” —Library Journal “Some of the author’s most enduring themes—notably, sexual jealousy and betrayal—are present. . . . The narration shows traces of writers as various as Joyce and Beckett, e.e. cummings and J.P. Donleavy.” —The Washington Post “The Abbott and Costello meet Samuel Beckett dialogue . . . makes you laugh out loud.” —The Village Voice |
| harold pinter short plays: plays, 6 revue sketches, a short story and a speech Harold Pinter, 1997 |
| harold pinter short plays: The Dumb Waiter Harold Pinter, 1964 |
| harold pinter short plays: The Birthday Party Harold Pinter, 2013-07-18 Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare. The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic, produced and studied throughout the world. |
| harold pinter short plays: Must You Go? Antonia Fraser, 2010-11-02 A moving testament to modern literature's most celebrated marriage: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer, Antonia Fraser. In this exquisite memoir, Antonia Fraser recounts the life she shared with the internationally renowned dramatist. In essence, it is a love story and a marvelously insightful account of their years together. Must You Go? is based on Fraser's recollections and on the diaries she has kept since October 1968. She shares Pinter's own revelations about his past, as well as observations by his friends. |
| harold pinter short plays: Black Spring Henry Miller, 1981 |
| harold pinter short plays: Moonlight: Claiming the Wolf / Courage of the Wolf / Her Wicked Wolf / One Night with the Wolf / Her Alpha Protector (Mills & Boon Nocturne) Michele Hauf, Bonnie Vanak, Kendra Leigh Castle, Anna Hackett, Gwen Knight, 2014-02-01 Werewolves satisfy their darkest cravings...with desire |
| harold pinter short plays: The Room & The Dumb Waiter Harold Pinter, 2013-11-28 The Room and The Dumb Waiter In these two early one-act plays, Harold Pinter reveals himself as already in full control of his unique ability to make dramatic poetry of the banalities of everyday speech and the precision with which it defines character. 'Harold Pinter is the most original writer to have emerged from the new wave of dramatists who gave fresh life to the British theatre in the fifties and early sixties.' The Times |
| harold pinter short plays: A la recherche du temps perdu (l'intégrale) Marcel Proust, 2023-11-19 À la recherche du temps perdu , couramment évoqué plus simplement sous le titre La Recherche, est un roman de Marcel Proust , écrit de 1906 à 1922 et publié de 1913 à 1927 en sept tomes, dont les trois derniers parurent après la mort de l'auteur. Plutôt que le récit d'une séquence déterminée d'événements, cette œuvre s'intéresse non pas aux souvenirs du narrateur mais à une réflexion sur la littérature, sur la mémoire et sur le temps. Cependant, comme le souligne Jean-Yves Tadié dans Proust et le roman , tous ces éléments épars se découvrent reliés les uns aux autres quand, à travers toutes ses expériences négatives ou positives, le narrateur (qui est aussi le héros du roman), découvre le sens de la vie dans l'art et la littérature au dernier tome. |
| harold pinter short plays: Old Times Harold Pinter, 2012-11-15 Old Times was first presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 1 June 1971. It was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in July 2004. ' Old Times is a joyous, wonderful play that people will talk about as long as we have a theatre.' New York Times 'What am I writing about? Not the weasel under the cocktail cabinet . . . I can sum up none of my plays. I can describe none of them, except to say: that is what happened. This is what they said. That is what they did.' Harold Pinter |
| harold pinter short plays: Family Voices Harold Pinter, 1981-12 |
| harold pinter short plays: The Hothouse Harold Pinter, 1980 THE STORY: The scene is a government institution, possibly mental or medical and presumably penal, where the inmates are kept behind locked gates and are referred to by number rather than name. In charge is Roote, a pompous ex-colonel who is surely |
| harold pinter short plays: "A Kind of Alaska" Ann C. Hall, 1993 Combining feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, Hall argues that the three dramatists violate character conventions, expose and break down patriarchal oppression, and create women characters that defy male objectification. Her perspective draws from her involvement with actual productions at the Contemporary American Theatre Company in Columbus, Ohio. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| harold pinter short plays: The Peopled Wound Martin Esslin, 1970 |
| harold pinter short plays: The Room Harold Pinter, 1960 |
| harold pinter short plays: A Night Out Harold Pinter, 1967 |
| harold pinter short plays: Mojo Jez Butterworth, 2015 The play is set in Ezra's Atlantic Club in Soho during the summer of 1958. Silver Johnny, Ezra's 17-year-old rock 'n' roll protégé, is causing a sensation at the club. Two petty crooks, Sweets and Potts, high on amphetamines, introduce us to this criminal milieu. They are joined by two others, Skinny, and Baby, who is Ezra's son. Baby enjoys tormenting, even torturing, Skinny. While the youngsters mess about, a local gangster, Sam Ross, kills Ezra, and takes Silver Johnny. Terrified, the gang, now led by Mickey (Ezra's number two) barricade themselves in the club and prepare for an attack. |
| harold pinter short plays: The Birthday Party Harold Pinter, 1991 Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic, produced and studied throughout the world. |
| harold pinter short plays: Harold Pinter Plays 3 Harold Pinter, 2013-03-21 This revised third volume of Harold Pinter's work includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man's Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a short story. It also contains the speech given by Pinter in 1970 on being awarded the German Shakespeare Prize. The Homecoming 'Of all Harold Pinter's major plays, The Homecoming has the most powerful narrative line... You are fascinated, lured on, sucked into the vortex.' Sunday Telegraph 'The most intense expression of compressed violence to be found anywhere in Pinter's plays.' The Times Old Times 'A rare quality of high tension is evident, revealing in Old Times a beautifully controlled and expressive formality that has seldom been achieved since the plays of Racine.' Financial Times 'Harold Pinter's poetic, Proustian Old Times has the inscrutability of a mysterious picture, and the tension of a good thriller.' Independent No Man's Land 'The work of our best living playwright in its command of the language and its power to erect a coherent structure in a twilight zone of confusion and dismay.' The Times |
| harold pinter short plays: A Casebook on Harold Pinter's The Homecoming John Lahr, Anthea Lahr, 1971 |
| harold pinter short plays: Two Short Plays by Harold Pinter Comprising The Lover and The Collection , |
| harold pinter short plays: Monologue Harold Pinter, Woolf, in a seedy room, talks to the empty chair in which he is seated. 'Monologue' was first shown on BBC Television in April 1973. |
| harold pinter short plays: Plays Four Harold Pinter, 2005 From the recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature |
| harold pinter short plays: “A” Slight Ache Harold Pinter, 1961 |
| harold pinter short plays: A Pint of Pinter , |
| harold pinter short plays: Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter Mary F. Brewer, 2009 This collection of essays focuses on one of Harold Pinter's most popular and challenging plays, The Dumb Waiter, while addressing also a range of significant issues current in Pinter studies and which are applicable beyond this play. The interesting and provocative dialogues between established and emerging scholars featured here provide close readings of The Dumb Waiter, within relevant cultural and historical contexts and from a range of theoretical perspectives. The essays range over issues of autobiography and theater, genre studies, and the impact of Pinter's political activism on his dramatic production, among others. The collection is also concerned with the meaning of the play when assessed against other example's of Pinter's work, both dramatic and non-dramatic writing. Each contributor shows a gift for presenting a complex argument in an accessible style, making this book an important resource for a wide range of readers, from undergraduates to postgraduates and specialist researchers. The collection offers essays that approach The Dumb Waiter, from an interdisciplinary perspective and as both a literary and dramatic text. Thus, the book should be of equal significance to those encountering Pinter within the context of English Studies, drama, and performance. |
| harold pinter short plays: Pinter’s World William Baker, 2018-09-15 Pinter’s World: Pinter and Company is not a full-scale biography but a series of illuminating chapters about Pinter’s life, character, and thought, employing new information found in his “Appointment Diaries,” recent biographical sources such as Simon Gray’s memoirs, and Henry Woolf’s reminiscences in addition to personal discussions with several in Pinter’s world. This book provides a fresh illumination of Pinter’s life and art, his friendships, obsessions, and concerns.Material is arranged around themes, key concerns, Pinter’s activities. Pinter’s meetings and endeavors, for instance, with whom he met and when, when he wrote what and when, and his perspective at the time are documented. This work explores Pinter’s writing: drama, poetry, prose, journalism, and letters, which are here regarded as part of his aesthetic achievement. Pinter’s World: Pinter and Company presents a pointillist portrait of him through examining central concerns in his life. These encompass an obsession with the theater and games; delight in restaurants, demonstrating that Pinter is far removed from the socially awkward isolated figures populating his early work; and the women in Pinter’s world. Other areas examined include Pinter’s political engagement, from his adolescence to his last years, and the literary and other creative influences upon him. This work draws upon consultation of his papers at the British Library, including letters to others, especially close friends with whom he kept close contact for over half a century. These letters should be regarded on par with his other creative accomplishments. Pinter was a fascinating letter writer, whose letters reveal thoughts at the time of writing often in abrupt most colorful idiomatic language. His “Appointment Diaries” cannot reveal what actually occurred during his meetings, but they do provide a guide to what he did on a daily basis and whom he met. Memories from his friends, his professional colleagues, cricket players, and his second wife, Antonia Fraser, illuminate Pinter’s personality and actions. Pinter’s first literary love was poetry and, unlike most other Pinter studies, this one gives attention to his neglected poetic output that often reveals the real Pinter and the enigma that is at the heart of every great artist. |
| harold pinter short plays: Plays Harold Pinter, 1991-01 This revised third volume of Harold Pinter's work includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man's Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a short story. It also contains the speech given by Pinter in 1970 on being awarded the German Shakespeare Prize. The Homecoming 'Of all Harold Pinter's major plays, The Homecoming has the most powerful narrative line...You are fascinated, lured on, sucked into the vortex.' Sunday Telegraph 'The most intense expression of compressed violence to be found anywhere in Pinter's plays.' The Times Old Times 'A rare quality of high tension is evident, revealing in Old Times a beautifully controlled and expressive formality that has seldom been achieved since the plays of Racine.' Financial Times 'Harold Pinter's poetic, Proustian Old Times has the inscrutability of a mysterious picture, and the tension of a good thriller.' Independent No Man's Land 'The work of our best living playwright in its command of the language and its power to erect a coherent structure in a twilight zone of confusion and dismay.' The Times |
| harold pinter short plays: The One-Act Play Companion Colin Dolley, Rex Walford, 2015-01-05 The one-act play stands apart as a distinct art form with some well known writers providing specialist material, among them Bernard Shaw, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill. Alan Ayckbourn, Edward Albee and Tennesee Williams. There are also lesser-known writers with plenty of material to offer, yet sourcing one-act plays to perform is notoriously hard. This companion is the first book to survey the work of over 250 playwrights in an illuminating A-Z guide. Multiple styles, nationalities and periods are covered, offering a treasure trove of compelling moments of theatre waiting to be discovered. Guidance on performing and staging one-act plays is also covered as well as essential contact information and where to apply for performance rights. A chapter introducing the history of the one-act play rounds off the title as a definitive guide. |
| harold pinter short plays: Collected Poems and Prose Harold Pinter, 1996 An essential collection for any admirer of Harold Pinter, this brand-new, updated edition of his own selection of his poems and prose includes three never-before-published pieces, the most recent of which he wrote in January 1995. Included are love poems, political diatribes, short stories, character portraits. Some are intimately connected with plays; others are intriguingly allusive, and all of them share Pinter's lean, taut, and sometimes jarringly original use of language. Katherine Burkman has said that like Shakespeare, Pinter is a poet, and in this single volume we see that Harold Pinter is not only, as Irving Wardle has written in the London Times, our best living playwright but one of the most accomplished writers in the English language today. |
| harold pinter short plays: Plays Three Harold Pinter, 1997 This revised third volume of Harold Pinter's work includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man's Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a short story. It also contains the speech given by Pinter in 1970 on being awarded the German Shakespeare Prize. The Homecoming'Of all Harold Pinter's major plays, The Homecoming has the most powerful narrative line... You are fascinated, lured on, sucked into the vortex.' Sunday Telegraph 'The most intense expression of compressed violence to be found anywhere in Pinter's plays.' The TimesOld Times'A rare quality of high tension is evident, revealing in Old Times a beautifully controlled and expressive formality that has seldom been achieved since the plays of Racine.' Financial Times 'Harold Pinter's poetic, Proustian Old Times has the inscrutability of a mysterious picture, and the tension of a good thriller.' Independent No Man's Land'The work of our best living playwright in its command of the language and its power to erect a coherent structure in a twilight zone of confusion and dismay.' The Times |
| harold pinter short plays: One for the Road Harold Pinter, 1991 A violent short play in which an interrogator from an unnamed totalitarian state torments, in turn, a tortured prisoner, his wife and his child. |
| harold pinter short plays: Complete Works, Volume IV Harold Pinter, 2015-01-27 Dramatist, scriptwriter, short story writer, novelist, poet, director, and actor, Harold Pinter has earned universal praise for his distinctive style and imagination. In this, the most recent of four volumes, Pinter's work echoes many of his earlier themes and techniques-struggles for power and an ambience of menace-while finding fresh subject matter and means to express his changing dramatic vision. This volume contains three of Pinter's most famous plays, including Old Times, which Clive Barnes called a joyous, wonderful play that people will talk about as long as we have theater; a television play, Monologue; and a radio piece, Family Voices. Includes: Old Times No Man's Land Betrayal Monologue Family Voices |
| harold pinter short plays: The Lover Harold Pinter, 1964 |
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Harold is an English personal name. The modern name Harold ultimately derives from the Proto-Germanic *harja-waldaz, meaning 'military-power' or 'army-ruler'. The name entered Modern …
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Dec 7, 2022 · From the Old English name Hereweald, derived from the elements here "army" and weald "powerful, mighty". The Old Norse cognate Haraldr was also common among …
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Harold as a boys' name is pronounced HARE-uld. It is of Scandinavian and Old English origin, and the meaning of Harold is "army ruler ". From Old English here weald, influenced by the …
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Harold Name Meaning, Origin, History, And Popularity
May 7, 2024 · Harold is a modern English name usually given to boys. It was derived from the Old Germanic name Hajrawald. The meaning of the name can be divided into two parts, ‘heri’ or …
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Harold is largely used in English and German, and its origin is Germanic. Harold is a variant transcription of the name Harald (German and Scandinavian). The diminutive forms Hal …
Harold first name popularity, history and meaning - Name Census
Harold was a common name among the ruling classes in medieval England, after the Norman Conquest in 1066. The most famous bearer of this name was Harold Godwinson, the last …
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Explore the origin and significance of the name Harold, which means 'Army Ruler' and has Scandinavian roots, as a perfect choice for a strong and noble male name.
Harold | Oh Baby! Names
Harold is an old-fashioned charmer but probably too crusty “old man” by today’s naming standards. Harold has a long and illustrious history on the American male naming charts. He …
Harold (given name) - Wikipedia
Harold is an English personal name. The modern name Harold ultimately derives from the Proto-Germanic *harja-waldaz, meaning 'military-power' or 'army-ruler'. The name entered Modern …
Meaning, origin and history of the name Harold
Dec 7, 2022 · From the Old English name Hereweald, derived from the elements here "army" and weald "powerful, mighty". The Old Norse cognate Haraldr was also common among …
Harold - Baby Name Meaning, Origin, and Popularity
Jun 8, 2025 · The name Harold is a boy's name of Scandinavian origin meaning "army ruler". The name of the last Anglo-Saxon king of England before the Norman conquest, and a name that's …
Harold - Name Meaning, What does Harold mean? - Think Baby Names
Harold as a boys' name is pronounced HARE-uld. It is of Scandinavian and Old English origin, and the meaning of Harold is "army ruler ". From Old English here weald, influenced by the …
Harold Tanner ’52, board chairman emeritus, dies at 93
12 hours ago · Harold Tanner ’52, chairman emeritus of the Cornell Board of Trustees – who helped usher in an era of financial stability as a co-chair of Cornell’s first billion-dollar …
Harold Name Meaning, Origin, History, And Popularity
May 7, 2024 · Harold is a modern English name usually given to boys. It was derived from the Old Germanic name Hajrawald. The meaning of the name can be divided into two parts, ‘heri’ or …
Harold - Meaning of Harold, What does Harold mean? - BabyNamesPedia
Harold is largely used in English and German, and its origin is Germanic. Harold is a variant transcription of the name Harald (German and Scandinavian). The diminutive forms Hal …
Harold first name popularity, history and meaning - Name Census
Harold was a common name among the ruling classes in medieval England, after the Norman Conquest in 1066. The most famous bearer of this name was Harold Godwinson, the last …
Harold: meaning, origin, and significance explained - What the …
Explore the origin and significance of the name Harold, which means 'Army Ruler' and has Scandinavian roots, as a perfect choice for a strong and noble male name.
Harold | Oh Baby! Names
Harold is an old-fashioned charmer but probably too crusty “old man” by today’s naming standards. Harold has a long and illustrious history on the American male naming charts. He …
