Editor’s Preface. Prefatory Note. Note to Second Edition. 1. Introduction 2. Biographical Survey 3. Menace and the Absurd 4. Toward Greater Realism 5. Struggles for Power 6. Memory Plays 7. Recapitulations and Fresh Starts 8. The Place of Pinter. References. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Bernard F. Dukore is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Theatre Arts and Humanities at Virginia Tech, USA. He has written extensively on Bernard Shaw and other modern dramatists, including Shaw’s fellow-Nobel prizewinner, Harold Pinter. His most recent books on Shaw are Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw (2017), Bernard Shaw and the Censors: Fights and Failures, Stage and Screen (2020), and Unions, Strikes, Shaw: “The Capitalism of the Proletariat” (2022).
Reviews for the original edition:
‘a truly creative effort in assimilating recurrent concerns through…years of Pinter playwrighting…Dukore makes some unique contributions which are likely to expand our structural perceptions of Pinter’s work’. – Modern Drama
‘will, I am sure, give the next generation of Pinter students a clearer introduction and, hopefully, a fuller practical involvement in realising his work on stage. What more can one ask?’ – Drama Broadsheet
