Harold Pinter

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Standard Name: Pinter, Harold
Used Form:
Pseudonym: David Baron
Pseudonym: Harold Pinta
Best-known as one of the leading British playwrights of the later twentieth century and as a Nobel Prize winner, HP was also a poet, actor, theatre director, and writer of radio plays and screenplays both original and adapted. He was early recognised for stage violence, for comedy of menace and theatre of the absurd. His work became more urgently political with time. He stripped the excess fat from theatre dialogue, and mapped out his own distinctive theatrical topography: a place haunted by the ambivalence of memory, flecked by uncertainty, reeking of sex, and echoing with a strange, mordant laughter.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Travel Antonia Fraser
AF and Harold Pinter spent two weeks in Israel which took in the thirtieth anniversary of its founding as the State of Israel.
Fraser, Antonia. Our Israeli Diary. Oneworld Publications.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Michelene Wandor
In its original form, says Greenhalgh, this book reflects MW 's roles as playwright, reviewer, and Leavisite student of English literature.
Greenhalgh, Susanne. “A Review of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender</span> by Michelene Wandor”. Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol.
13
, No. 1, pp. 125-6.
125
The revised form considers the impact of feminism, socialism, and changing concepts of...
Textual Production Antonia Fraser
AF , at the hairdresser's, on impulse concocted a pastiche of Harold Pinter 's dramatic output entitled No Man's Homecoming.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
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Textual Production Penelope Mortimer
PM finished this book in spring this year, and again dedicated it to her second husband, John Mortimer .
Lord, Graham. John Mortimer, The Devil’s Advocate. The Unauthorised Biography. Orion.
104
It became a successful, award-winning film, with a script by Harold Pinter and starring Anne Bancroft
Textual Production Antonia Fraser
AF drew on her diary and on unwritten memories for Must You Go: My Life with Harold Pinter.
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Textual Production Ruth Padel
This poem was reprinted in Angel. Other poets to appear in this series, each on a different coloured sheet of paper, were Carol Ann Duffy , Judi Benson , Anne Born , Carole Coates
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
Harold Pinter wrote the script for a film with the same title based on the novel, which was released in 1990, directed by Volker Schlöndorff and starring Natasha Richardson , Fay Dunaway , and Robert Duvall
Textual Production Elizabeth Bowen
Harold Pinter adapted this novel for television in 1989, bringing out its subtlety as a study of the corrosive effect of fascism on human relationships.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Pinter
Textual Production Dodie Smith
DS found herself increasingly out of step with the new drama being produced in London since the advent of the Angry Young Men. She could tolerate John Osborne and even admired Shelagh Delaney ...
Textual Production Caryl Churchill
The play was commissioned by Michael Codron , an influencial theatre producer who had backed Harold Pinter and Joe Orton .
Kritzer, Amelia Howe. The Plays of Caryl Churchill: Theatre of Empowerment. Macmillan.
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The production marks the beginning of CC 's long association with the Royal Court
Textual Production Antonia Fraser
AF supplied introductions for The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, April 1975 (by various hands), the Trollope Society 's edition of Anthony Trollope 's Framley Parsonage, 1996, and the Folio Society
Textual Production Sarah Waters
By perverse coincidence, SW began her novel about the bombing of London (whose title had been used by several other writers already) on the morning of 11 September 2001.
Allardice, Lisa. “Uncharted Waters”. The Guardian.
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She broke new ground here in...
Textual Production Fay Weldon
FW joined distinguished writers such as Harold Pinter in contributing to the multi-act Mixed Doubles: an Entertainment on Marriage, which was published in 1970 by Methuen .
Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research.
14: 752
Newman, Jenny. “’See Me as Sisyphus, But Having A Good Time’: The Fiction of Fay Weldon”. Contemporary British Women Writers: Texts and Strategies, edited by Robert E. Hosmer, Macmillan.
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When, however, in the...
Textual Production Antonia Fraser
She and Pinter decided to sell their manuscripts to the British Library . In July 1994 they went to pay our manuscripts a visit. They found that while Pinter's were stored in conventional box-files, hers...
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
Meanwhile, however, in 1963 Nottingham Playhouse moved to new premises, and its three directors, Peter Ustinov , John Neville , and Frank Dunlop , commissioned from various writers including SDa series of short sketch...

Timeline

December 1951: John Villiers Sankey began producing, on...

Writing climate item

December 1951

John Villiers Sankey began producing, on a hand press housed in his bedroom, a little magazine called The Window, which he also edited.

Texts

Pinter, Harold. Poetry London, No. 20, 22, pp. 8 - 9, 22.
Pinter, Harold. Ashes to Ashes. Faber and Faber, 1996.
Pinter, Harold. Betrayal. Faber, 1980.
Pinter, Harold. Celebration; and, The Room. Faber , 2000.
Pinter, Harold. Landscape and Silence. French, 1969.
Pinter, Harold. Moonlight. Faber and Faber, 1993.
Pinter, Harold. Mountain Language. Faber and Faber, 1988.
Pinter, Harold. No Man’s Land. Eyre Methuen, 1975.
Pinter, Harold. Old Times. Methuen, 1971.
Pinter, Harold. One for the Road. Methuen, 1984.
Pinter, Harold. Other Places. Methuen, 1982.
Pinter, Harold. Party Time. Faber and Faber, 1991.
Pinter, Harold. Poems. Greville, 2002.
Pinter, Harold. Press Conference. Faber and Faber, 2002.
Pinter, Harold. Six Poems for A. Greville Press, 2007.
Pinter, Harold. The Birthday Party. Methuen, 1965.
Pinter, Harold. The Caretaker. Methuen, 1960.
Pinter, Harold. The Collection. Samuel French, 1963.
Pinter, Harold. The Homecoming. Methuen & Co., 1965.
Pinter, Harold. The Hothouse. Eyre Methuen, 1980.
Pinter, Harold. The Room; and, The Dumb Waiter. Methuen, 1960.
Fraser, Antonia, and Harold Pinter. “The US president nukes the world: read Harold Pinter’s newly discovered play”. theguardian.com.
Pinter, Harold. War. Faber and Faber, 2003.