Harold Pinter : stages, networks, collaborations /
"This important book offers a thematic collection of critical essays, ideal for undergraduate courses on modern British theatre, on Harold Pinter's theatrical works, alongside new interviews with contemporary theatre practitioners. The life and works of Harold Pinter (1930-2008), a pivotal...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London [England] :
Methuen Drama,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Methuen drama engage.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Basil Chiasson and Catriona Fallow
- Part I: (Re)situating Pinter, critical orientations
- Pinter's modernism(s) revisited: A drama reliant upon prose / Basil Chiasson
- The theatre of the absurd as professional network in Harold Pinter's early career / Harry Derbyshire
- The elite Pinter and the Pinter elite / James Hudson
- 'Too much of a modern?': Pinter's Jewishness / Eckart Voigts
- Pinter's connections with the Middle East / Ibrahim Yerebakan
- Part II: Pinter as playwright, playwrights and Pinter
- 'An insistence in my mind': Pinter's writing ethic / Steve Waters
- Beyond the mainstage: Harold Pinter at the royal shakespeare company / Catriona Fallow
- Theatre's dark matter: Pinter's 'staging' of systemic violence and its influence in contemporary British theatre / Alex Watson
- Faith, telos and failure: Pinter, Butterworth, Kelly / David Pattie
- The crimpesque: Pinter's legacy in the theatre of Martin Crimp / Maria Elena Capitani
- Part III: Conversations with collaborators
- Chinonyerem Odimba
- Nancy Meckler
- Douglas Hodge
- Jamie Lloyd
- Soutra Gilmour.