Harold Pinter and the Twilight of Modernism
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: November 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780802038876
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: from c 1900 -; Plays / Drama; Literary Criticism; English; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; General; 1930-; Criticism and interpretation; Philosophy; Pinter, Harold,
First sentence: In hindsight, the politics of Pinter's early plays has emerged as a central critical concern, and the goal of this chapter is a political assessment of three formative masterworks: The Birthday Party (1958), The Caretaker (1960), and The Homecoming (1965).