Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Harold Pinter
-
Standard Name: Pinter, Harold
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.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Literary responses | Antonia Fraser | Pinter
loved this spoof, which brought together characters from his various plays. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010. 67-8 |
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... |
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. 231 |
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, 1997. |
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, 29 July 2006, pp. Review 10 - 11. 11 |
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, 12 May 2013, p. 25. |
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 | Antonia Fraser | AF
drew on her diary and on unwritten memories for Must You Go: My Life with Harold Pinter. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
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 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... |
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 | 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 | 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, 1991. 61 |
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, 2005. 104 |
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... |
Timeline
No timeline events available.
Texts
No bibliographical results available.