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The Life & Work of Harold Pinter Michael Billington

The Life & Work of Harold Pinter By Michael Billington

The Life & Work of Harold Pinter by Michael Billington


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A biography of the playwright Harold Pinter and a study of his work as writer, actor and director. His political beliefs are viewed from the perspective of his life, which he began as an only child in Hackney, where he was one of a group of youths delighting in intellectual wordplay and badinage.

The Life & Work of Harold Pinter Summary

The Life & Work of Harold Pinter by Michael Billington

Harold Pinter is our foremost living dramatist; and in this ground-breaking book - the first authorized biographical study - Michael Billington examines Pinter's work in the context of his life. Pinter's plays, including such acknowledged masterpieces as The Caretaker and The Homecoming, are subjected to close textual scrutiny and are seen to spring from a mixture of experience, memory and the unfettered poetic imagination. Billington's book also demolishes the myth that Pinter's political commitment is either belated or aesthetically detrimental; the dramatist is seen from the outset as a vehement opponent of authoritarian structures.

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GOR004091271
9780571171033
0571171036
The Life & Work of Harold Pinter by Michael Billington
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Faber & Faber
1997-01-03
328
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