Harold Pinter

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Standard Name: Pinter, Harold
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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/.

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Literary responses Winsome Pinnock
WP was touched and delighted when members of the National Theatre audience (mostly white and relatively affluent) saw the likeness between their own parents and those on stage.
Stephenson, Heidi, and Natasha Langridge. Rage and Reason: Women Playwrights on Playwriting. Methuen Drama.
In 1991 this play won her the...
Literary responses Samuel Beckett
Dylan Thomas called this novel Freud ian blarney: Sodom and Begorrah.
Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon.
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Iris Murdoch recorded the lasting impression which it made on her when she first read it.
Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press.
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Harold Pinter —who while trying to...
Literary responses Antonia Fraser
AF was not happy when Harold Pinter found the manuscript, at a relatively early stage, confusing.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
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Literary responses Ann Quin
Berg earned AQ two major awards: the Harkness Fellowship, given to the most promising Commonwealth artist under thirty years, and the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship from the University of New Mexico .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Giles Gordon
Performance of text Shelagh Delaney
Nottingham Playhouse , celebrating fifty years in its current home, put on The Lost Plays Revue, a composite work built around forgotten short sketches by SD (Then and Now) and by others including Harold Pinter .
Thorpe, Vanessa. “Lost short plays by Pinter and Delaney to be staged again”. The Observer, p. 25.
Performance of text James Joyce
This followed its rejection by managements in England, Ireland and America, the first pronounced by George Bernard Shaw and the second by W. B. Yeats .
O’Brien, Edna. “The ogre of betrayal”. The Guardian, pp. Review 10 - 11.
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The first English-language production took place in New...
Reception Sarah Kane
A propos the Sheffield production of 2015, Alan Bennett commented on the difficulty of achieving realism with such extreme violence: how can a character mutilated on stage be shown as having attention for anything at...
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.
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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...
Textual Production Elaine Feinstein
This opportunity arose from her guest editing an issue of Cambridge Opinion while the regular editors were sitting exams, in an issue she called The Writer out of Society. She had discovered Allen Ginsburg...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jane Howard
She took four years to write this novel, working with a new agent, A. D. Peters . Having before this written fast and easily, she now reduced her speed to a crawl, with constant rewriting...

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