ABSTRACT

This comprehensive and authoritative casebook includes cornerstone essays on Pinter's creative process, his politics, film adaptations, and acting career. It also includes a collection of photos found nowhere else that document Pinter's "golden time"--his early acting days in Ireland--, a substantial introduction, a chronology, and bibliography.

chapter 2|19 pages

The Economy of Betrayal

chapter 4|19 pages

Last to Go

A Structuralist Reading

chapter 5|13 pages

Monologue

The Play of Words

chapter 7|10 pages

Displacement in Time and Space

Harold Pinter's Other Places

chapter 8|10 pages

Film and Drama

The Opening Sequence of the Filmed Version of Harold Pinter's the Caretaker (The Guest)

chapter 9|32 pages

Pinter and Politics*

chapter 10|28 pages

“Yes! In the Sea of Life Enisled”

Harold Pinter's Other Places

chapter 11|11 pages

“To Lay Bare”

Pinter, Shakespeare, and the Dwarfs

chapter 12|13 pages

Mind-Less Men

Pinter's Dumb Waiters

chapter 13|8 pages

Harold Pinter in New York*

chapter 14|20 pages

Photos, from Pauline Flanagan

chapter 16|6 pages

Acting Pinter

chapter 17|16 pages

“You'Re Speaking to Someone and you Suddenly Become Another Person”

Storytelling in Pinter's Moonlight and Ashes to Ashes

chapter 18|12 pages

Celebrating Pinter