Harold Pinter
1) Betrayal
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English
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Two years after their affair has ended, Emma and Jerry -- her husband's best friend -- meet and reflect on their illicit relationship.
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English
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This is the third volume of the collected works of Harold Pinter, who is regarded by many as the foremost playwright in the English language today. Featured are The Homecoming, one of Pinter's best-known works, along with three other plays, six revue sketches, and a short story.
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Born in London in 1930, Harold Pinter holds an undisputed place in the front ranks of contemporary playwrights. These two plays, Party Time and The New World Order, work in chilling tandem, each demonstrating the inevitable brutality that comes with a total conviction of right. Party Time is a terrifying portrait of the culpable indifference of a privileged class, of the cruelty engendered in its members by political disruption, and of their merciless...
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English
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Harold Pinter's latest full-length play is set against the decayed elegance of a house in London's Hampstead Heath. Two men face each other over a drink. Do they know each other, or is each performing an elaborate charade of recognition? The ambiguity -- and the comedy -- intensify with the arrival of two younger men, the one ostensibly a manservant, the other a male secretary. All four inhabit a no man's land between time present and time remembered,...
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Series
Evergreen original ; E315
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1961]
Language
English
Description
"In The Birthday Party, a musician escapes to a dilapidated boarding house, where he falls victim to the shadowy, ritualized violence of two men who have followed him from his sinister past. In The Room, a derelict boarding house again becomes the scene of a visitation from the past when a blind man suddenly arrives to deliver a mysterious message." --
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Series
Evergreen book ; E411
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
This play was first produced in London in 1965, and in New York City in 1967. In it, Teddy, a professor of philosophy who lives in America, brings his wife Ruth to England to visit his family, whom she has never met. His father, a widower, and two brothers, a pimp and a boxer, convince Ruth to remain with them and to enter a life of prostitution. Teddy returns to America alone. Pinter's very high talent manages to make the situation believable.
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Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
Description
The Caretaker was Harold Pinter's first successful play, first staged in 1960 in London. The play is a subtle exploration of madness, power, and the inertia at the core of many people's lives. But because The Caretaker is such a subtle piece of theatre, it might be worth recapping the plot of the play (if we can call it a 'plot' as such) before proceeding to an analysis of its themes.
The dumb waiter: Two hit-men, Ben and Gus, are waiting in a basement...
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Series
Evergreen original ; E350
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[©1962]
Language
English
Description
A SLIGHT ACHE is set in an English country garden. A couple invites in an old matchseller. Both husband and wife have bizarre "conversations" with the silent old man. THE COLLECTION is a story of the relations between two couples, one homosexual and the other heterosexual. THE DWARFS is a radio play.
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1983.
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English
Description
A Kind of Alaska: A woman awakes after twenty nine years in a coma induced by sleeping sickness. 1 man, 2 women, 1 interior.
Victoria Station: Humorous exchange between a lost taxi driver and a dispatcher. 2 men, 1 setting.
Family Voices: A radio play. Unrelated voices of a mother, father, and son reflect the complexity of familial relationships. 2 men, 1 woman, 1 setting.
13) Old times
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Evergreen black cat book ; B354
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged couple entertain a friend they have not seen for two decades in Pinter's play first presented in London's West End in June, 1971.
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
"A black comedy set in a government-run mental institution, The Hothouse revolves around a sinister murder plot hatched against a backdrop of corruption, sexual favors, and hopeless bureaucratic ineptitude. Beneath the surface comedy there are frightening implications concerning a bureaucracy ostensibly dedicated to humanitarian concerns, but where people are referred to by numbers and forgotten as easily as troublesome figures on a balance sheet....
16) Ashes to ashes
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
First presented by the Royal Court Theatre in London in September of 1996, Ashes to Ashes is a triumph of power and concision. In the living room of a pleasant house in a university town outside of London, Devlin, threatened by his wife Rebecca's recollections of an abusive ex-lover, questions her relentlessly in his need for a single truth. In her seamless blending of what she knows of violence with the wider violence of the world, Rebecca reveals...
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Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
The Lover is a 1962 one-act play by Harold Pinter. Pinter leads the audience to believe that there are three characters in the play: the wife, the husband and the lover. But the lover who comes to call in the afternoons is revealed to be the husband adopting a role. He plays the lover for her: she plays the whore for him. The play contrasts bourgeois domesticity with sexual yearning. --Wikipedia.com.
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Description
Tea Party "revolves around a family engaged in a business of sanitary engineering." According to an account published in the New Yorker, the play concerns "a middle-aged self-made business man named Sisson" (whom Pinter later renamed Disson), who engages a young secretary, marries a beautiful young second wife, and takes his new brother-in-law into his business -- all in the same day.
The basement: two men, (Tim) Law and (Charles) Stott, compete...