The Short Plays of Harold Pinter
by Harold Pinter

Name: The Short Plays of Harold Pinter
Brand: Harold Pinter
SKU: 9780571349913
Rating: 4.1 (53 reviews)

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Highlights

One Act British

What readers are saying

Readers love the eclectic and comprehensive nature of this collection of Harold Pinter's shorter works. They praise the sharp and barbed writing, finding it both funny and disturbing. The timeless and enigmatic qualities of the plays are frequently highlighted, alongside the powerful influence of Pinter's work.

Eclectic and comprehensive collection Sharp and barbed writing Timeless and enigmatic Funny and disturbing plays Wished for more plays from Pinter

Synopsis

This volume contains the complete short plays of Harold Pinter from The Room

, first performed in 1960, to Celebration

, which premiered in 2000.

The book commemorates the tenth anniversary of the playwright’s death and coincides with Pinter at the Pinter, a celebratory season staging twenty of his one-act plays at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, 2018.

With a foreword by Antonia Fraser.

‘The foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the twentieth century.’ Swedish Academy citation on awarding Harold Pinter the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2005.

Themes British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author)