The Theatre of Harold Pinter

ISBN-13: 9781408175309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str.

Mark Taylor-Batty

Opis

The plays of the late Nobel laureate Harold Pinter have formed part of the canon of world theatre since the 1960s. Frequently revived on the professional stage, and studied on almost every Theatre Studies course, his importance and influence is hard to overestimate. This Critical Companion offers an assessment of Pinter's entire body of work for the stage, appraising his skill as a dramatist and considering his impact and legacy. Through a clear focus on issues of theatricality and the effect of the plays in performance The Theatre of Harold Pinter considers Pinter's chief narrative concerns and offers a unifying theme through which over four decades of work may be understood. Plays are considered in themed chapters that follow the chronological sequence of work, illuminating the development of his aesthetic and concerns. The volume features too a series of essays from other leading scholars presenting different critical perspectives on the work, including Harry Burton on Pinter's early drama; Ann Hall on Revisiting Pinter's Women; Chris Megson on Pinter's Memory Plays of the 1970s, and Basil Chiasson on Neoliberalism and Democracy.

Recenzje

[The Theatre of Harold Pinter] offers some valuable original insights and its close analysis of the development of Pinter's dramatic themes and aesthetics will be informative to students and general readers alike. D. Keith Peacock Studies in Theatre and Performance

Spis treści

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Invasion and Oppression2. The Company of Men and the Place of Women3. Present Continuous, Past Perfect4. The Impossible Family5. Politics and the Artist as Citizen6. Critical Perspectives:The Curse of Pinter, by Harry BurtonRevisting Pinter's Women, by Ann HallPinter's Memory Plays of the 1970s, by Chris MegsonPinter's Political Dramas: Staging Neoliberal Discourse and Authoritarianism, by Basil ChiassonNotesIndexNotes on Contributors

O autorze

Mark Taylor-Batty is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies and Deputy Head of School in the School of English at the University of Leeds, UK. His previous publications include The Theatre of Harold Pinter (Bloomsbury, 2014), About Pinter: The Playwright and the Work (Faber and Faber, 2005), Roger Blin: Collaborations and Methodologies (Peter Lang, 2007) and, he co-authored with his wife, Juliette Taylor-Batty, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Continuum, 2009).