Pinter The Playwright by Martin Esslin
In 1958 The Birthday Party was dismissed by all but a few critics and closed after one week's run in London. Since then Harold Pinter has come to be acknowledged as "our best living playwright" (Irving Wardle, The Times) Martin Esslin's study of Pinter's plays has become a standard work since its publication in 1970. This sixth, revised edition - published to mark Pinter's 70th birthday and updated to cover his most recent plays, Moonlight, Ashes to Ashes and Celebration - offers a comprehensive survey of the whole span of Harold Pinter's writing career by one of the most distinguished commentators on modern theatre."It will certainly not be the last book on Pinter, but seems bound to remain one of the best" John Russell Taylor"Holds its place as the most straightforwardly useful account of Pinter's work to date" Times Literary Supplement-
On Theatre
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The Theatre of the Absurd
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Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama
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Artaud's Theatre Of Cruelty
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The Theatre Of Bertolt Brecht
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The Field Of Drama
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Artaud On Theatre
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A Guide To The Plays Of Bertolt Brecht
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Rage And Reason
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Rewriting the Nation
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Stephen Poliakoff on Stage and Screen
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Annie Horniman
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Buzz Buzz! Playwrights, Actors and Directors at the National Theatre
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Brecht: A Choice Of Evils
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Dario Fo and Franca Rame
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Euripides Our Contemporary
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Played in Britain
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Impossible Plays
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Amid Our Troubles
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The Full Room
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Rebel Women
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At the Sharp End: Uncovering the Work of Five Leading Dramatists
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Brecht In Context
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Tennessee Williams on File
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Dark Attractions
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File On Frayn
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Edgar The Playwright
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File On Wilde
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File On Nichols
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Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies
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Empedocles' Shoe
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File On Churchill
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Live 3
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File On Gorky
Martin Esslin was the author of such ground-breaking classics as The Theatre of the Absurd and Brecht: A Choice of Evils, as well as The Field of Drama in which he focused on the semiology of drama. He joined the BBC in 1940 and was head of Drama (Radio) from 1963-1977. He published many collections of essays including Brief Chronicles: Essays on Modern Drama and Mediations: Essays on Brecht, Beckett and the Media. His critical articles used to appear regularly in Plays and Players, Encounters and many other periodicals. He was also a well-known translator of plays, particularly by German-speaking dramatists. He died in 2012.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780413668608 |
| ISBN 10 | 0413668606 |
| Title | Pinter The Playwright |
| Author | Martin Esslin |
| Series | Plays And Playwrights |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2000-10-05 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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