Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Harold Pinter
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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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
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The production marks the beginning of CC
's long association with the Royal Court
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.
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It became a successful, award-winning film, with a script by Harold Pinter
and starring Anne Bancroft
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
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, 1982–1983.
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., Jr Hosmer, Macmillan, 1993.
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, 1 June 2006.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
She broke new ground here in...
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...
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 Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender by Michelene Wandor”. Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol.
13
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 125-6.
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The revised form considers the impact of feminism, socialism, and changing concepts of...
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.
