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Book SynopsisA reassessment of the achievements of British playwright Harold Pinter by an international group of scholars. This work contains eighteen essays that represent the state of Pinter criticism and an affirmation of Pinter's preeminence in modern British theatre.
Table of ContentsPREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I. PINTER IN PRODUCTION
1. Pinter in Rehearsal: From The Birthday Party to Mountain Language: Carey Perloff
2. Producing Pinter: Louis Marks
II. POLITICAL PINTER
3. Harold Pinter's Theatre of Cruelty: Martin Esslin
4. Harold Pinter's The Hothouse: A Parable of the Holocaust: Rosette C. Lamont
5. Disjuncture as Theatrical and Postmodern Practice in Griselda Gambaro's The Camp and Harold Pinter's Mountain Language: Jeanne Colleran
6. The Outsider in Pinter and Havel: Susan Hollis Merritt
III. PINTER'S POETICS
7. The Betrayal of Facts: Pinter and Duras beyond Adaption: Judith Roof
8. Image and Attention in Harold Pinter: Alice Rayner
9. Pinter and the Ethos of Minimalism: Jon Erickson
IV. PINTER AND INFLUENCE
10. Xhekhov, Beckett, Pinter: The St(r)ain upon the Silence: Alice N. Benston
11. That first last look: Martha Fehsenfeld
12. A Rose by any other name: Pinter and Shakespeare: Hersh Zeifman
13. From Novel to Film: Harold Pinter's Adaptation of The Trial: Francis Gillen
14. I am Powerful...and I am only the lowest doorkeeper: Power Play in Kafka's The Trial and Pinter's Victoria Station: John L. Kundert-Gibbs
V. PINTER AND FILM
15. Art Objects as Metaphors in the Filmscripts of Harold Pinter: Steven H. Gale
16. Pinter and Bowen: The Heat of the Day: Phyllis R. Randall
VI. Alaskan Perspectives
17. Portrait of Deborah: A Kind of Alaska: Moonyoung C. Ham
18. Deborah's Homecoming in A Kind of Alaska: An Afterword: Katherine H. Burkman
WORKS CITED
CONTRIBUTORS
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