Reviews by Harold Hobson
and Kenneth Tynan
were instrumental in the sensation created by this play in Britain.
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It established Beckett as a major figure in the Theatre of the Absurd.
Brownstone, David, and Irene Franck. Timelines of the Arts and Literature. HarperCollins, 1994.
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Literary responses
Muriel Spark
The London theatre critics were scathing, with only two exceptions (though one of these, Harold Hobson
, carried a lot of weight). Pamela Hansford Johnson
trounced the play on the BBC
's radio programme The...
Literary responses
Harold Pinter
This extraordinary play attracted immediate attention: Pinter was approached by an agent, Jimmy Wax
. The National Student Drama Festival of 1957 put on a production which was enthusiastically reviewed by Harold Hobson
, and...
Literary responses
Harold Pinter
Most reviewers of the premiere were both offended and contemptuous; they seemed annoyed or angered by Pinter's refusal to spell out who precisely his twin abductors represented.
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