The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter

by Edited by Peter Raby

• ISBN13: 9780521886093
• ISBN10: 0521886090
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-20
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Harold Pinter was one of the world's leading and most controversial writers, and his impact and influence continues to grow. This Companion examines the wide range of Pinter's work - his writing for theatre, radio, television and screen, and also his highly successful work as a director and actor. Substantially updated and revised, this second edition covers the many developments in Pinter's career since the publication of the first edition, including his Nobel Prize for Literature win in 2005, his appearance in Samuel Beckett's play Krapp's Last Tape and recent productions of his plays. Containing essays written by both academics and leading practitioners, the volume places Pinter's writing within the critical and theatrical context of his time and considers its reception worldwide. Including three new essays, new production photographs, five updated and revised chapters and an extended chronology, the Companion provides fresh perspectives on Pinter's work.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vii
Notes on contributors	p. ix
Chronology	p. xii
Note on the text	p. xx
Introduction	p. 1
Text and Context	p. 5
Printer, politics and postmodernism (I)	p. 7
Pinter and the 1950s	p. 27
The sacred joke: comedy and politics in Pinter's early plays	p. 43
Tales of the city: some places and voices in Pinter's plays	p. 56
Printer and twentieth-century drama	p. 74
Harold Pinter, screenwriter: an overview	p. 88
Speaking out: Harold Pinter and freedom of expression	p. 105
Pinter and Performance	p. 121
Body language in Pinter's plays	p. 123
Harold Pinter as director	p. 146
Directing the plays of Harold Pinter	p. 160
Pinter in Russia	p. 170
Pinter and Ireland	p. 195
Pinter's late tapes	p. 216
Reactions to Pinter	p. 231
Pinter's sexual politics	p. 233
Pinter and the critics	p. 249
Pinter as celebrity	p. 266
Pinter, politics and postmodernism (2)	p. 283
The Pinter paradigm: Pinter's influence on contemporary playwriting	p. 297
Afterword: Harold Pinter and cricket	p. 310
Bibliography	p. 312
Main Index	p. 316
Works Index	p. 322
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