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Representation of marriage in selected Harold Pinter plays
… of marriage as it is depicted in six plays by Harold Pinter. The married couples in Pinter's plays struggle to maintain the balance between normalcy—the socially accepted behaviors expected of married individuals—and the sexual infidelity that they commit. Pinter creates a pattern in the …
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Harold Pinter, cinema e literatura : os limites da realidade
… na literatura, centrando sua atenção na obra de Harold Pinter. Consta de duas partes, cada uma com três capítulos. Na primeira, "Os pressupostos," discute-se as questões que fornecem seu substrato teórico. A segunda é dedicada ao corpus, identificando em seu título o tema investigado: "Os limites …
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Open and Closed Sequences in the Plays of Harold Pinter
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'Look for the truth and tell it': politics and Harold Pinter
For more than two decades, Pinter had been most passionately engaged with world politics as a citizen; as an artist he has often sought to reflect this political engagement through his representation of the relationship between an oppressive totalitarian state and the dissenting individual. In …
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Ethics, politics, and alterity in selected plays and other works by Harold Pinter
… examination of the intersections between Pinter’s political output – most notably his drama – and contemporary ethical thought. In order to so, I build on the recent few discussions of Pinter’s ethics by arguing that the ethical has always been a critical focus at every stage of Pinter’s …
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Theatres of the Mind A Kleinian analysis of the plays of Harold Pinter
… work of Britain’s most successful playwright, Harold Pinter. One of the richer paths of enquiry has been to analyse the plays using a psychoanalytic vocabulary. In general terms, however, most of these studies have been restricted to using a Freudian terminology. This study develops the …
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Exilic Vision and the Cinematic Interrogation of Britain: The Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter Collaboration
… Losey and British-Jewish playwright/screenwriter Harold Pinter. During the 1960s and early 1970s, they collaborated on the celebrated British art-house films The Servant (1963, based on the novella by Robin Maugham), Accident (1967, based on the novel by Nicholas Mosley), and The Go-Between (1971, …
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Signifying nothing: intelligence and intellectual disability in modern British literature and culture, 1919 – 1969
… H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Peter Nichols, I show that scientific and political concerns about intelligence and intellectual disability animated literary approaches to the relationships among subject, society, and state in the midcentury. The chapters of …
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Aging well: Shaping age identities in the literature of the British welfare state
… in the mid-century plays of Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter still inform current debates about retirement, pensions, and social welfare provisions. Other chapters, including one discussing the work of B. S. Johnson, explore how the depiction of subjective dimensions of aging (including anxiety …
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Independent Local Radio Drama: A Cultural, Historical And Regulatory Examination Of British Commercial Radio Drama.
… television. Dramatists like Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter reasserted radio drama with ground-breaking, innovative and avant-garde plays, but by the 1970’s radio drama occupied a precarious position, not abandoned, but living on borrowed time. Its continued existence on Radio Four was deemed …
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Mise-en-Scene as (pre)text; an insistence on a negotiated space for the creating of new theatre works
… within a negotiated space. With reference to Harold Pinter, in his Nobel prize lecture in 2005 entitled Art, Truth and Politics where he describes how sound, light and dialogue collude to give birth to character in relation to his two plays The Homecoming and Old Times ) Part 3 : Mise en scene …
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Self Against Others: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Harold Pinter's Work
… plays of the playwright, screenwriter and poet, Harold Pinter, in order to argue, first of all, that he was a writer of psychological realism, and that his oeuvre can, in the main, be defined as a body of psycho-political works. My essential contention is that Pinter’s defining interest in power …
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Herbert Blau: directing a revolution in American theatre, 1952-1965
… and keep strong the ensemble ideas forged by Harold Clurman and the Group Theatre; 2) utilize discussion as a way to delve into the text at a time when discussion was looked upon as borderline subversive; 3) introduce to American theatre through production such new playwrights as Bertolt …
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Time the avenger: two plays and a critical thesis. How does a dramatist’s use of stage time affect the audience’s understanding of the story being told? A critical examination of temporal framing in the work of four playwrights
… The Weir by Conor McPherson (1997), Betrayal by Harold Pinter (1978), and Le Père (The Father) by Florian Zeller (2012, English translation, Christopher Hampton: 2014), each of which employ manifestly disparate temporal modalities. In Le Père and Betrayal, the two non-linear plays, memory …