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Author : Harold Pinter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789000007295
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Dumb Waiter written by Harold Pinter and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary F. Brewer
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042025565
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter written by Mary F. Brewer and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focuses on one of Harold Pinter's most popular and challenging plays, The Dumb Waiter, while addressing also a range of significant issues current in Pinter studies and which are applicable beyond this play. The interesting and provocative dialogues between established and emerging scholars featured here provide close readings of The Dumb Waiter, within relevant cultural and historical contexts and from a range of theoretical perspectives. The essays range over issues of autobiography and theater, genre studies, and the impact of Pinter's political activism on his dramatic production, among others. The collection is also concerned with the meaning of the play when assessed against other example's of Pinter's work, both dramatic and non-dramatic writing. Each contributor shows a gift for presenting a complex argument in an accessible style, making this book an important resource for a wide range of readers, from undergraduates to postgraduates and specialist researchers. The collection offers essays that approach The Dumb Waiter, from an interdisciplinary perspective and as both a literary and dramatic text. Thus, the book should be of equal significance to those encountering Pinter within the context of English Studies, drama, and performance.
Author : Harold Pinter
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571301088
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book The Room & The Dumb Waiter written by Harold Pinter and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Room and The Dumb Waiter In these two early one-act plays, Harold Pinter reveals himself as already in full control of his unique ability to make dramatic poetry of the banalities of everyday speech and the precision with which it defines character. 'Harold Pinter is the most original writer to have emerged from the "new wave" of dramatists who gave fresh life to the British theatre in the fifties and early sixties.' The Times
Author : Austin E. Quigley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400872405
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Pinter Problem written by Austin E. Quigley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of steady growth in popularity, Pinter's plays have continued to elude adequate critical appraisal. Considering the last decade's scholarship, Austin E. Quigley attributes the impasse in Pinter criticism to the failure of Pinter's readers to appreciate the diversity of ways in which language can transmit information. This explanation places recent commentaries in a new light and enables the author to take a fresh approach to the plays themselves. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Harold Pinter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780573022364
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (223 download)
Download or read book The Room written by Harold Pinter and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose and Bert rent a room that might almost be a paleolithic cave; the outside is terrifying and unknown. Rose never goes out, Bert only goes to drive his van with furious aggression. A young couple call, and then a blind black man. Bert comes home, massive with triumph at smashing every car that challenged his van. Finding the stranger he kicks him to death and Rose goes blind.
Author : Harold Pinter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789000007295
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Dumb Waiter written by Harold Pinter and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Nikiforuk
Publisher : Greystone Books
ISBN 13 : 1553659791
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (536 download)
Download or read book The Energy of Slaves written by Andrew Nikiforuk and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A robustly researched and smoothly written overview of the many challenges confronting our devotion to fossil fuels” from the author of Tar Sands (Quill & Quire). Ancient civilizations relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities. Nineteenth-century slaveholders viewed critics as hostilely as oil companies and governments now regard environmentalists. Yet the abolition movement had an invisible ally: coal and oil. As the world’s most versatile workers, fossil fuels replenished slavery’s ranks with combustion engines and other labor-saving tools. Since then, cheap oil has transformed politics, economics, science, agriculture, and even our concept of happiness. Many North Americans today live as extravagantly as Caribbean plantation owners. We feel entitled to surplus energy and rationalize inequality, even barbarity, to get it. But endless growth is an illusion. In this provocative book, Andrew Nikiforuk, winner of the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, argues that what we need is a radical emancipation movement that ends our master-and-slave approach to energy. We must learn to use energy on a moral, just, and truly human scale. Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute “In his cautionary tale about the evils of oil . . . Nikiforuk makes his case for impending doom if we don’t mend our energy-spending ways.” —The Star “In this cogently argued book, Andrew Nikiforuk deploys a powerful metaphor. Oil dependency, he writes, is a modern form of slavery—and it’s time for a global abolition movement.” —Taras Grescoe, author of Shanghai Grand “A startling critique that should rouse us from our pipe dream of endless plenty.” —Ronald Wright, author of On Fiji Islands
Author : Edward Bond
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408178095
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Saved written by Edward Bond and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described by its author as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic', Saved is a play set in London in the sixties. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young people on the dole and living on council estates. The play was first staged privately in November 1965 at the Royal Court Theatre before members of the English Stage Society in a time when plays were still censored. With its scenes of violence, including the stoning of a baby, Saved became a notorious play and a cause célèbre. In a letter to the Observer, Sir Laurence Olivier wrote: 'Saved is not a play for children but it is for grown-ups, and the grown-ups of this country should have the courage to look at it.' Saved has had a marked influence on a whole new generation writing in the 1990s. Edward Bond is "a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright" (Independent)
Author : Harold Pinter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (631 download)
Download or read book The dumb waiter written by Harold Pinter and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ira Levin
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573617577
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Veronica's Room written by Ira Levin and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1981 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty year old Susan, a Boston University student, is accosted in a restaurant by a charming elderly Irish couple who think she resembles a long-dead daughter of the family for whom they work. Susan is induced to impersonate Veronica and once locked in her room, find herself in the role or is she really Veronica?
Author : Ali Smith
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307801977
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Hotel World written by Ali Smith and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • Forget room service: this is a riotous elegy, a deadpan celebration of colliding worlds, and a spirited defense of love. Blending incisive wit with surprising compassion, Hotel World is a wonderfully invigorating, life-affirming book. Five people: four are living; three are strangers; two are sisters; one, a teenage hotel chambermaid, has fallen to her death in a dumbwaiter. But her spirit lingers in the world, straining to recall things she never knew. And one night all five women find themselves in the smooth plush environs of the Global Hotel, where the intersection of their very different fates make for this playful, defiant, and richly inventive novel.
Author : Harold Pinter
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802142696
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (426 download)
Download or read book The Essential Pinter written by Harold Pinter and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents selections of the work of playwright Harold Pinter. Includes key plays, poetry, and the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature lecture.
Author : David Athey
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 140920667X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Dumb Waiter written by David Athey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Dumb Waiter' tells the story of two orphans. Tom Broom is raised by his grandfather - an aficionado of fine desserts and a long standing member of The Pudding Club. Stella Brighton lives under the guardianship of a failing grandmother, preceding that of a chaotic aunt with an appetite for decorating and occasional prostitution. Both orphans seek to escape an unwanted childhood: Tom through an imaginary lover, whilst Stella grows up in an invented world of letter writing. Patched-up and raised to the brink of adulthood, their paths cross in the university city of York. Tom takes the cellar rooms of an old house discovering a boarded up dumb waiter connecting him to fellow tenant, Klaus, a womanizing student of art whilst Stella shares a flat with Martha, an American shoe heiress. The two are drawn into a circle of acquaintances and become friends. When the circle disintegrates Tom decides to travel to London in search of his mother, only to find more of a family than he bargained for.
Author : Binnie Brand Yeates
Publisher : Booktango
ISBN 13 : 1468942220
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (689 download)
Download or read book The Weasel Under the Cocktail Cabinet written by Binnie Brand Yeates and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2013-12-26 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why were Harold Pinter’s plays met with so much disdain in the early years, when he has since been acknowledged as one of the greatest British dramatists of the twentieth century? In this study, Binnie Brand Yeates examines and compellingly demonstrates, through Pinter’s striking theatrical skills and the behaviour, motivation and language of the characters in the plays written between 1957 and 1964, the probable cause of the alienation, and leaves no doubt that, though controversial, Pinter has in fact always been an extremely powerful and accomplished playwright. One of the first commentaries ever written on Pinter’s plays, now with a 2013 Postscript covering 'The Hothouse' and selected plays written between 1978 and 1991, this is an original, thought-provoking and eye-opening interpretation, an essential reader for students, theatre lovers and Pinter devotees alike. “What Binnie Yeates offers here is not just another set of thoughts on Pinter's early plays, but one that captures a snapshot of the growth of his reputation in the mid-sixties. Based upon a dissertation that Binnie wrote in 1966, she effectively summarises the first key phase of Pinter’s writing up to and including the career-defining 'The Homecoming'. With little dedicated Pinter scholarship available at the time of the original study, Yeates considered Pinter free from too much critical noise on her subject, and did so predominantly through considering character and motivation. She offers thoughts on Pinter's signatures of menace, status and game-playing, and how his work affected audience through specific uses of language and the impact of disorientation. The work captures an admiration for the playwright in a passionately articulated defence and appreciation of his plays, and reminds us of a time when his reputation was still being defined.” Dr Mark Taylor-Batty Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies, University of Leeds; Executive, International Harold Pinter Society
Author : Matias Faldbakken
Publisher : Gallery/Scout Press
ISBN 13 : 1501197533
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Waiter written by Matias Faldbakken and published by Gallery/Scout Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As if The Remains of the Day had been written by Kingsley Amis, The Waiter is…one of the most purely entertaining novels I’ve read in years. This book is a meal you won’t want to finish.” —J. Ryan Stradal, New York Times bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest In the tradition of the modern classics The Remains of the Day and A Gentleman in Moscow comes The Waiter, in which the finely tuned balance of a timeworn European restaurant is irrevocably upset by an unexpected guest. The Hills dates from a time when pigs were pigs and swine were swine, the Maître D’ likes to say—in other words from the mid-1800s. Every day begins with the head waiter putting on his jacket. In with one arm, then the other. Shrugged onto his shoulders. Horn buttons done up. Always the same. There is clinking. Cutlery is moved around porcelain and up to mouths. But in this universe unto itself, there is scarcely any contact between the tables of regulars. And that is precisely how the waiter likes it. Sheer routine…until a beautiful young woman walks through the door and upsets the delicate balance of the restaurant and all it has come to represent. Told in a kaleidoscopic rotation of voices—the headwaiter, the bartender, the coat checker, the chef who never speaks—The Waiter marks the North American debut of an exciting new voice in literary fiction that will leave you longing to sit down at The Hills, order a drink, and watch the world go by….
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410344789
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book A Study Guide for Harold Pinter's "The Dumb Waiter" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Harold Pinter's "The Dumb Waiter," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Harold Pinter
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802192270
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book No Man's Land written by Harold Pinter and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An oblique comedy of menace, unsettling, exquisitely wrought and written . . . a complex excursion into the by now familiar Pinter world of mixed reality and fantasy, of human worth and human degradation.” —New York Times Set against the decayed elegance of a house in London’s Hampstead Heath, in No Man’s Land two men face each other over a drink. Do they know each other, or is each performing an elaborate character of recognition? Their ambiguity—and the comedy—intensify with the arrival of two younger men, the one ostensibly a manservant, the other a male secretary. All four inhabit a no man’s land between time present and time remembered, between reality and imagination—a territory which Pinter explores with his characteristic mixture of biting wit, aggression, and anarchic sexuality.
