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
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
Friends, Associates Samuel Beckett
Among SB 's various friendships made in Paris, that with James Joyce was the most formative. He was lucky not to lose his friendship with Nancy Cunard when she tried to pin him down over...
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...
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 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
Leisure and Society Clemence Dane
In her last years, CD greatly admired the film West Side Story (1961), and went to see Harold Pinter 's The Caretaker (1960) over and over again.
Jeffrey John Archer, Earl Amherst,. Wandering Abroad: the Autobiography of Jeffrey Amherst. Secker and Warburg.
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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.
Literary responses Shelagh Delaney
The race issue received astonishingly little attention from reviewers, probably because SD was so far ahead of her time in acknowledging its existence. However, Colin MacInnes (himself homosexual and author of the novel City of...
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...
Cultural formation Antonia Fraser
Her family were highly educated, upper-class, Labour Party supporters: English, although her Anglo-Irish father sometimes liked to declare himself an Irishman.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Elizabeth Pakenham, Francis Aungier Pakenham
He was an earl's son, but the second...
Family and Intimate relationships Antonia Fraser
She left Sir Hugh Fraser that year to live with Harold Pinter . Her divorce came through on 16 December 1976. Sir Hugh died in 1984.
Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, pp. 16-19.
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Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
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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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Dedications Antonia Fraser
She followed it with Love Letters: An Anthology, dedicated to Harold Pinter and published in later 1976.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
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Writing about this book in the Times on 6 November that year, AF noted that she...
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

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.