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Pinter, Harold
Pinter, Harold (1930– ) English dramatist. His elliptical dialogue and prolonged pauses induces a sense of unease and menace, often reinforced by a confined setting. His second play,
The Birthday Party (1958), initially received adverse reviews. Pinter gained critical praise for his next play,
The Caretaker (1960). Other major works include
The Homecoming (1965),
Old Times (1971),
No Man's Land (1975),
Betrayal (1978), and
A Kind of Alaska (1982). Later plays, such as
Mountain Language (1988) and
Moonlighting (1993), are more explicitly political. His screenplays include
The Servant (1963),
The Go-Between (1969), and
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1980).
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Harold Pinter, Playwright And Nobel Laureate, Dies
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 12/25/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Things Considered 12-25-2008 Harold Pinter, Playwright And Nobel Laureate...Considered. I'm Robert Siegel. Sir Harold Pinter, playwright and 2005 Nobel Laureate...Ulaby reports. NEDA ULABY: When Harold Pinter won the Nobel prize for literature...
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Nobel Prize-Winning Playwright Harold Pinter Dies
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 12/25/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Nobel Prize-Winning Playwright Harold Pinter Dies Host: RENEE MONTAGNE Time...laureate for literature has died. Harold Pinter was best known for writing such...Woman and Handmaid's Tale. Harold Pinter had for years suffered from cancer...
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Harold Pinter 1930-2008 - a tale of two lives.(In memoriam)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 6/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; THE death of Harold Pinter at the age of seventy-eight late...continued writing, directing and acting. Harold Pinter's life, therefore, rather neatly...tendency to re-interpret the early Harold Pinter in terms of his political propagandising...
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Harold Pinter--a political playwright?(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 11/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; HAROLD Pinter's career as a playwright is highly...latter's 1996 book The Life and Work of Harold Pinter. Mr Billington's own commitment to...struggle'. This new interpretation of Harold Pinter's oeuvre as essentially political...
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Profile: Harold Pinter
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR); 10/15/2005; ; 489 words
; ...NPR) 10-15-2005 Profile: Harold Pinter Host: SCOTT SIMON Time: 1...Thursday, the recently retired Harold Pinter was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize...before he left the stage last year Harold Pinter wrote 29 plays, intricate stories...
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Harold Pinter Enters the Silence Of the Long Pause.
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 1/6/2009; 700+ words
; ...Three or four things I know about Harold Pinter who died in London on Christmas...cricketers. For many years, Harold Pinter was proudly chairman and match...you're giving me dot, dot." HAROLD PINTER first emerged in the late '50s...
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Harold Pinter, dramatist of silent menace OBITUARIES
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 12/27/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Herald Tribune 12-27-2008 Harold Pinter, dramatist of silent menace OBITUARIES...Group Edition: 1 Section: NEWS Harold Pinter, the British playwright whose...liberal generosity," Hare said. Harold Pinter was born in Hackney in the East...
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Pinter's old pal's act A 53-year friendship between playwright Harold Pinter and actor Henry Woolf takes another twist at the Almeida shortly. JASPER REES gets a progress report on the unlikely lads of Hackney Downs grammar school
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 3/15/2000; ; 700+ words
; HAROLD Pinter's first play was premiered...ever seen on television. Harold never said a word." Pinter says it's not for him...I was making," says Pinter, "and he was very supportive...always used to encourage Harold," Woolf remembers...
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MY LUNCHES WITH HAROLD.(PINTER)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; HAROLD PINTER is telling me about the characters...see. So when I think about Harold, certain events in my life...Francisco, in tandem with Pinter's earliest play, The Room...when they are uttered by Harold Pinter. His plays are filled with...
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British Playwright Harold Pinter, 78
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/26/2008; ; 700+ words
; Harold Pinter, who was widely esteemed...is its own reward." Only Harold Hobson, the influential...review might have saved Mr. Pinter's fledgling career...I just let it happen." Harold Pinter was born Oct. 10, 1930...
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Pinter, Harold
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
PINTER, Harold Writer. Nationality: British. Born...Butterworth) (as Sam Ross) 1998 Ritratto di Harold Pinter (Andò) (as himself) 1999...books— Hayman, Ronald, Harold Pinter, London, 1968. Gordon, Lois, Strategems...
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Harold Pinter
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Harold Pinter The English playwright Harold Pinter (born 1930) ranks among the foremost postwar British dramatists...plays with an atmosphere of fear, horror, and mystery. Harold Pinter was born on Oct. 10, 1930, the only son of a Jewish tailor...
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The Servant
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...director: Roy Stevens; screenplay: Harold Pinter, from the novel by Robin Maugham...Jill Melford (Young Woman ); Harold Pinter (Society Man ); Derek Tansley...Fox). Publications Script: Pinter, Harold, The Servant, in Five Screenplays...
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Lady Antonia Fraser
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...British writer Lady Antonia Fraser (Pinter; born 1932), was a popular biographer...cabinet posts under Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson. He was also a famed public...Already she was living with Harold Pinter, the playwright, whom she married...
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Alan Ayckbourn
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...been compared to Noel Coward and Harold Pinter. He draws upon his own upbringing...been performed all over the world. Harold Clurman, writing in the Nation...Fourteen Playwrights Since Osborne and Pinter, critic Oleg Kerensky observed that...
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