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This volume contains Harold Pinter''s first six plays, including The Birthday Party.

The Birthday Party
Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by two strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.

''Mr Pinter''s terrifying blend of pathos and hatred fuses unforgettably into the stuff of art.'' Sunday Times

The Room and The Dumb Waiter
In these two early one-act plays, Harold Pinter reveals himself as already in full control of his unique ability to make dramatic poetry of the banalities of everyday speech and the precision with which it defines character.

''Harold Pinter is the most original writer to have emerged from the new wave of dramatists who gave fresh life to the British theatre in the fifties and early sixties.'' The Times

The Hothouse
The Hothouse was first produced in 1980, though Harold Pinter wrote the play

Plays 1 The Birthday Party The Room The Dumb

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: 10/09/1996
      ISBN13: 9780571178445, 978-0571178445
      ISBN10: 0571178448
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      Poetry ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: plays and playwrights

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This volume contains Harold Pinter''s first six plays, including The Birthday Party.

      The Birthday Party
      Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by two strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.

      ''Mr Pinter''s terrifying blend of pathos and hatred fuses unforgettably into the stuff of art.'' Sunday Times

      The Room and The Dumb Waiter
      In these two early one-act plays, Harold Pinter reveals himself as already in full control of his unique ability to make dramatic poetry of the banalities of everyday speech and the precision with which it defines character.

      ''Harold Pinter is the most original writer to have emerged from the new wave of dramatists who gave fresh life to the British theatre in the fifties and early sixties.'' The Times

      The Hothouse
      The Hothouse was first produced in 1980, though Harold Pinter wrote the play

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