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Dec 10, 2005 · Per Wästberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Harold Pinter is the renewer of English drama in the 20th century. “Pinteresque” is an adjective listed in the Oxford Dictionary.
May 6, 2019 · Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) is sometimes associated with the generation of British playwrights who emerged in the 1950’s and are known as the Angry Young Men. His first plays, with their dingy, working-class settings and surface naturalism, seemed to link Pinter with this group, but only the surface of his plays is naturalistic; most of a Pinter play takes place beneath the surface.
Oct 23, 2019 · The Caretaker (1959) Unlike his earlier plays, The Caretaker was a financial victory, the first of many commercial successes. The full-length play takes place entirely in a shabby, one-room apartment owned by two brothers. One of the brothers is mentally disabled (apparently from electro-shock therapy).
Harold Pinter / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. – New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1987 – New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1987 The Pinter Review : Annual Essays / edited by Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. – Tampa, Fla : University of Tampa, 1987 –
Nobel Prize in Literature. · 2006 →. The 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the British playwright Harold Pinter (1930–2008) "who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms." [1] He is the 11th British writer to become a recipient of the prize after William Golding ...
Harold Pinter to The New York Times, 2007 Harold Pinter was a man deeply motivated by a desire for a more peaceful world. He saw in humanity a fragility and preciousness which was both beautiful and terrifying; themes which underline much of his dramatic work, and which motivated him throughout his life.
Sep 27, 2021 · The Old Times is a stunning piece by the Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter , narrating the element of time, space and the related concept of memory of the dim distant past, which was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre in London on June 1, 1971. My aim through this article is to propagate that Pinter has shown the ...
