172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

Harold Pinter provides an up-to-date analysis and reappraisal concerning the work of one of the most studied and performed dramatists in the world. Drawing extensively from The Harold Pinter Archive at the British Library as well as reviews and other critical materials, this book offers new insights into previously established views about his work. The book also analyses and reappraises... Read more

Part 1: Life, Career, Critical Reputation   1. Life & Career: From Hackney to Holland Park  2. Pinter’s Critical Reputation, Legacy, and Afterlife  3. Intruders & Rooms  4. Gender Trouble  5. Memory & Politics  Part 2: Key Plays/Productions   6. The Birthday Party  7. The Caretaker  8. The Homecoming

Biography

Graham Saunders is Allardyce Nicoll Professor at the University of Birmingham. He is author of Love Me or Kill Me: Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes (2002), About Kane: The Playwright and the Work (2009), Patrick Marber’s Closer (2008), British Theatre Companies 1980-1994 (2015) and Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama: ‘Upstart Crows' (2017).