This comprehensive and authoritative casebook includes cornerstone essays on Pinter's creative process, his politics, film adaptations, and acting career. It also includes a collection of photos found nowhere else that document Pinter's "golden time"--his early acting days in Ireland--, a substantial introduction, a chronology, and bibliography.
General Editor's Note, Kimball King Introduction, Lois Gordon Introduction to the Second Edition, Lois Gordon Chronology Chapter 1: Creative Process and Meaning-Some Remarks of Pinter's Letter to Peter Wood, Martin Esslin Chapter 2: The Economy of Betrayal , Ruby Cohn Chapter 3: Time for Change in No Man's Land , Austin E. Quigley Chapter 4: Last to Go : A Structuralist Reading, David Lodge Chapter 5: Monologue : The Play of Words, Linda Ben-Zvi Chapter 6: The Dumb Waiter , The Collection , The Lover , and The Homecoming : A Revisionist Approach, George Wellwarth Chapter 7: Displacement in Time and Space: Harold Pinter's Other Places , Katherine Burkman Chapter 8: Film and Drama: The Opening Sequence of the Filmed Version of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker (The Guest) , Steven H. Gale Chapter 9: Pinter and Politics, Susan Hollis Merritt Chapter 10: Yes! In the Sea of Life Enisled: Harold Pinter's Other Places , Ewald Mengel Chapter 11: To Lay it Bare: Pinter, Shakespeare, and The Dwarfs , Francis Gillen Chapter 12: Mind-less Men: Pinter's Dumb Waiters, Robert Gordon Chapter 13: Harold Pinter in New York, Lois Gordon Chapter 14: Photos, from Pauline Flanagan Chapter 15: Harold Pinter's Achievement and Modern Drama, Kimball King and Marti Greene Chapter 16: Acting Pinter, Mel Gussow Chapter 17: You're speaking to someone and you suddenly become another person: Storytelling in Pinter's Moonlight and Ashes to Ashes , Ann C. Hall Chapter 18: Celebrating Pinter, Michael Billington Selected Bibliography Author Biographies Index
Biography
Lois Gordon, professor of English at Farleigh Dickinson University, wrote the first book in the United States on Harold Pinter. She has published numerous other books on other writers and on American culture, including TheWorld of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946 and AmericanChronicle: Decade by Decade Through the TwentiethCentury.
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