Pinter at Sixty (Drama and Performance Studies)

To celebrate his sixtieth year, an international group of scholars and theatre artists gathered in 1991 to assess the achievement of British playwright and screenwriter Harold Pinter. These eighteen essays represent the current state of Pinter criticism and an affirmation of Pinter's preeminence in contemporary British theatre. Contents include: Pinter in Rehearsal: From The Birthday Party to Mountain Language, by Carey Perloff; Producing Pinter, by Louis Marks; Harold Pinter's Theatre of Cruelty, by Martin Esslin; Harold Pinter's The Hothouse: A Parable of the Holocaust, by Rosette C. Lamont; Disjuncture as Theatrical and Postmodern Practice in Griselda Gambaro's The Camp and Harold Pinter's Mountain Language, by Jeanne Colleran; The Outsider in Pinter and Havel, by Susan Hollis Merritt; The Betrayal of Facts: Pinter and Duras beyond Adaptation, by Judith Roof; Image and Attention in Harold Pinter, by Alice Rayner; Pinter and the Ethos of Minimalism, by Jon Erickson; Chekhov, beckett, Pinter: The St(r)ain upon the Silence, by Alice N. Bentson; 'That first last look ..., ' by Martha Fehsenfeld; A Rose by any other name: Pinter and Shakespeare, by Hersh Zeifman; From Novel to Film: Harold Pinter's Adaptation of The Trial, by Francis Gillen. 'I am powerful ...and I am only the lowest doorkeeper': Power Play in Kafka's The Trial and Pinter's Victoria Station, by John L. Kundert-Gibbs; Art Objects as Metaphors in the Filmscripts of Harold Pinter, by Steven H. Gale; Pinter and Bowen: The Heat of the Day, by Phyllis R. Randall; Portrait of Deborah: A Kind of Alaska, by Moonyoung C. Ham; and Deborah's Homecoming in A Kind of Alaska: Afterword, by Katherine H. Burkman.

Kundert-Gibbs, John L.

Burkman, Katherine H.

Humor & Entertainment

Indiana Univ. Pr

A critical analysis of Pinter's use of imagery and realism in his plays

The Dramatic World of Harold Pinter: Its Basis in Ritual,

Literature & Fiction

Ohio State Univ Pr

A critical analysis of the ritual quest for renewal that revolves around the arrival, or nonarrival, of Godot/savior figures in the plays of Beckett, Pinter, Ionesco, Albee, Grass, and Genet. The discussion leads to a consideration of modern man's fate as an exile and his own possibilities for coming home.

Arrival of Godot: Ritual Patterns in Modern Drama

UNKNO

<p>This book explores the way in which doubling takes place in several novels, films, and dramas, primarily focusing on modern drama and exploring how five Greek myths – Oedipus, Narcissus, Dionysus, Orestes, and Demeter – inform the literature. Taking a psychological/mythical approach, this book explores the inner divisions that lead to boundary loss and the search for the self that may lead to boundaries found. The contention of the book is that the oedipal search for self has been replaced in modern literature by individuals caught up in a narcissistic culture. Katherine H. Burkman explores plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Henrik Ibsen, Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Marsha Norman, and Will Eno.</p>

The Drama of the Double: Permeable Boundaries (What is Theatre?)

Movies

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

<p>Set in the 1970s at a small college in Pennsylvania, April Cruel proves T. S. Eliot right: "April is the cruelest month." When the rigid and rather unpleasant Professor, Erica Berne, discovers that her fiancé has been murdered, she not only is grief-stricken, but she also becomes the victim of several murder attempts that misfire and kill or harm others. Two young professors in the English Department, Jim Strand and David Stein, attempt to uncover the perpetrator of the crimes, along with one of David's students, Jill Lake, with whom he has fallen in love and Susie Marsh, a departmental secretary for whom Jim has a growing affection. Detective Norman Halloway is also seeking the killer, and since so many have grudges against Erica Berne, there are motives aplenty. Are the murders connected in any way with the death of Professor Berne's former fiancé? Has she so offended other students and teachers that they have decided to eliminate her? What kind of hold does she have over the chairman of the department, Wilfred Black? Will hysterical parents force the closing of Huston college so near the end of the semester? And why does Jill Lake feel that she is herself in terrible danger?</p>

April Cruel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Outskirts Press

Oh, Pegasus

Children's Books

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Independently published

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