The Theatre of Harold Pinter "Taylor-Batty, Mark"
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TextSeries: ; Critical CompanionsPublication details: United Kingdom Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 13/03/2014Description: 320 PaperbackISBN: - 9781408175309
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Literary studies: plays & playwrights
"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."
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CHOICE Review
With this book Taylor-Batty adds to the proliferation of critical studies on Nobel Prize-winning author Harold Pinter (1930-2008). The author considers "Pinter's plays as imagined in their theatrical contexts, to understand them as dramatic expression that is only alive, meaningful and meaning-generating in the moment of performance." A brief introduction providing some biography is followed by five chronologically orientated chapters on the plays. Pinter's other work--his poetry, prose, films--are ignored, but this well-written study has valuable insights into Pinter's "aesthetic interest in the fragility of memory" and "concerns over trust and betrayal." One of the book's contributions is its inclusion of essays presenting four differing perspectives: Harry Burton's "The Curse of Pinter"; Ann Hall's "Revisiting Pinter's Women"; Chris Megson "Pinter's memory plays of the 1970s"; and Basil Chiasson's "Pinter's Political Dramas." These are followed by an unnecessary, truncated chronology and notes. This volume supplements The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter, ed. by Peter Raby (2nd ed., CH, Dec'09, 47-1853). --William Baker, Northern Illinois UniversityThere are no comments on this title.