num_pages: 43
description: The play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdown of communication, broadly in the tradition of the theatre of the absurds and this is demonstrated in both The Caretaker and The Birthday Party.
language: English
title: The Caretaker
titlecomplete: The Caretaker
genres: 20th Century, Theatre, Nobel Prize, Drama, Plays, Literature, English Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 3870
publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.