num_pages: 414
description: Harold Pinter is our foremost living dramatist; and in this ground-breaking book - the first authorized biographical study - Michael Billington examines Pinter's work in the context of his life. Pinter's plays, including such acknowledged masterpieces as The Caretaker and The Homecoming, are subjected to close textual scrutiny and are seen to spring from a mixture of experience, memory and the unfettered poetic imagination. Billington's book also demolishes the myth that Pinter's political commitment is either belated or aesthetically detrimental; the dramatist is seen from the outset as a vehement opponent of authoritarian structures.
language: English
title: The Life and Work of Harold Pinter
titlecomplete: The Life and Work of Harold Pinter
genres: Plays, Biography, Theatre, Drama, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 103
publisher: Faber & Faber