The English playwright Harold Pinter (born 1930) ranks among the foremost postwar British dramatists. A master of menace, he invested his plays with an atmosphere of fear, horror, and mystery.Harold P...
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[This entry was updated by Stephen Grecco (Pennsylvania State University) from his entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 315-336.]Harold Pinter, Britain's most s...
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Biography EssayHarold Pinter, Britain's most significant playwright since Bernard Shaw, was born in Hackney, a small working-class section just beyond the borders of London's East End. He grew up in a...
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Harold Pinter's play, The Homecoming, represents a series of urban characters that involves in the family relationships whose prime interest is in wining dominance over another, and the depiction of g...
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Ruth is very central to the play as she is a contrast to the rest of the characters in the play and is a very powerful character. She exerts her power on the family through her sexuality unlike the re...
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Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter
