The Birthday Party

The Birthday Party
Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 87
Release: 1991
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780571160785

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.

The Birthday Party, and The Room

The Birthday Party, and The Room
Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1961
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780802151148

In "The Birthday Party", a musician becomes the victim of a ritual murder. Everyone implacably plays out the role assigned to them by fate. "The Room" becomes the scene of a visitation of fate when a blind Negro suddenly arrives to deliver a mysterious message.

A Study Guide for Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party"

A Study Guide for Harold Pinter's
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 38
Release:
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410341380

A Study Guide for Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter
Author: Bill Naismith
Publisher: Faber & Faber Limited
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2000
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780571197811

Do you want to know why Harold Pinter is a figure of such influence and importance in the theatre? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Or do you teach Pinter and need a reliable guide to the plays? The Faber Critical Guide to Harold Pinter gives this and much more, including an introduction to the distinctive features of the playwright's work, a detailed analysis of each of the classic plays and comments on performance.

The Caretaker and the Dumb Waiter

The Caretaker and the Dumb Waiter
Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1988
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780802150875

Jacket description.back: In all of Pinter's plays, seemingly ordinary events become charged with profound, if elusive, meaning, haunting pathos, and wild comedy. In The Caretaker, a tramp finds lodging in the derelict house of two brothers; in The Dumbwaiter, a pair of gunmen wait for the kill in a decayed lodging house. Harold Pinter gradually exposes the inner strains and fear of his characters, alternating hilarity and character to create and almost unbearable edge of tension.

A Study Guide for Harold Pinter's "The Caretaker"

A Study Guide for Harold Pinter's
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 31
Release:
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410342425

A Study Guide for Harold Pinter's "The Caretaker," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Ashes to Ashes

Ashes to Ashes
Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1997
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780802135100

First presented by the Royal Court Theatre in London in September of 1996, Ashes to Ashes is a triumph of power and concision. In the living room of a pleasant house in a university town outside of London, Devlin, threatened by his wife Rebecca's recollections of an abusive ex-lover, questions her relentlessly in his need for a single truth. In her seamless blending of what she knows of violence with the wider violence of the world, Rebecca reveals an eerie communion with the dead victims of unnamed political barbarities.

The Hothouse

The Hothouse
Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1980
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822205357

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

The Room

The Room
Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 1960
Genre: English drama
ISBN: 9780573022364

Rose and Bert rent a room that might almost be a paleolithic cave; the outside is terrifying and unknown. Rose never goes out, Bert only goes to drive his van with furious aggression. A young couple call, and then a blind black man. Bert comes home, massive with triumph at smashing every car that challenged his van. Finding the stranger he kicks him to death and Rose goes blind.

Affirming the Absurd in Harold Pinter

Affirming the Absurd in Harold Pinter
Author: Jane Wong Yeang Chui
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2013-05-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137343079

Using Martin Esslin's "invention" - the Theatre of the Absurd - to examine Pinter's works, Wong brings the complexities and intricacies of the plays to the forefront, provoking readers and audiences to reconsider and problematize more conventional studies of his plays.