Pinter at Sixty [Paperback]

... insights and expertise which all together furnish a useful addition to Pinter studies. Modern Language Review

Essays by both scholars and theater artists examine the work of British playwright Harold Pinter. The essays focus on performance, politics, gender issues, interpersonal manipulation, style and language, on influence, and on the interplay between Pinters theatrical and film-scripting careers. Illustrated.

KATHLEEN H. BURKMAN is Professor of English at The Ohio State University and author of The Dramatic World of Harold Pinter: Its Basis in Ritual; The Arrival of Godot: Ritual Patterns in Modern Drama; and Simon Gray: A Casebook. JOHN L. KUNDERT-GIBBS is currently a Ph.D. candidate at The Ohio State University.

PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I. PINTER IN PRODUCTION

1. Pinter in Rehearsal: From The Birthday Party to Mountain Language: Carey Perloff
2. Producing Pinter: Louis Marks

II. POLITICAL PINTER

3. Harold Pinters Theatre of Cruelty: Martin Esslin
4. Harold Pinters The Hothouse: A Parable of the Holocaust: Rosette C. Lamont
5. Disjuncture as Theatrical and Postmodern Practice in Griselda Gambaros The Camp and Harold Pinters Mountain Language: Jeanne Colleran
6. The Outsider in Pinter and Havel: Susan Hollis Merritt

III. PINTERS POETICS

7. The Betrayal of Facts: Pinter and Duras beyond Adaption: Judith Roof
8. Image and Attention in Harold Pinter: Alice Rayner
9. Pinter and the Ethos of Minimalism: Jon Erickson

IV. PINTER AND INFLUENCE

10. Xhekhov, Beckett, Pinter: The St(r)ain upon the Silence: Alice N. Benston
11. That first last look: Martha Fehsenfeld
12. A Rose by any other name: Pinter and Shakespeare: Hersh Zeifman
13. From Novel to Film: Harold Pinters Adaptation of The Trial: Francis Gillen
14. I am Powerful...and I am only the lowest doorkeeper: Power Play in Kafkas The Trial and Pinters Victoria Station: John L. Kundert-Gibbs