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Pen name | Harold Pinta, David Baron ( Légion d'honneur (2007) |
Spouse | Vivien Merchant (1956–1980) Antonia Fraser (1980–2008) |
Children | one son with Merchant six stepchildren with Fraser |
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Harold Pinter,
After publishing poetry and acting in school plays as a teenager in London, Pinter began his professional theatrical career in 1951–1952, touring throughout Ireland,
Pinter's dramas often involve strong conflicts among ambivalent characters who struggle for verbal and territorial dominance and for their own versions of the past; stylistically, these works are marked by theatrical pauses and silences, comedic timing, irony, and menace.[7] Thematically ambiguous, they raise complex issues of individual identity oppressed by social forces, language, and vicissitudes of memory.[8] In 1981, after a brief talk at the University of East Anglia, Pinter stated that he was not inclined to write plays explicitly about political subjects (political theatre); yet in the mid-1980s he began writing overtly political plays, reflecting his own heightening political interests and changes in his personal life. This "new direction" in his work and his left-wing political activism stimulated additional critical debate about Pinter's politics.[9] Pinter, his work, and his politics have been the subject of voluminous critical commentary.[7]
In addition to the
Biography
Early life and education
Pinter was born on 10 October 1930, in
Although he was a "solitary" only child, he "discovered his true potential" as a student at
Sport and friendship
Pinter was an avid
Other main loves or interests that he mentioned to Gussow, Billington, and other interviewers (in varying order of priority) are family, love (of women) and sex, drinking, writing, and reading.[28] According to Billington, "If the notion of male loyalty, competitive rivalry and fear of betrayal forms a constant thread in Pinter's work from The Dwarfs onwards, its origins can be found in his teenage Hackney years. Pinter adores women, enjoys flirting with them, worships their resilience and strength. But, in his early work especially, they are often seen as disruptive influences on some pure, Platonic ideal of male friendship: one of the most crucial of all Pinter's lost Edens" (Harold Pinter 10–12).[29]
Early theatrical training and stage experience
Beginning in late 1948, Pinter attended the
From 1951 to 1952, he toured Ireland with the Anew McMaster repertory company, playing over a dozen roles.[2] In 1952 he began acting in regional English repertory productions; from 1953 to 1954, he worked for the Donald Wolfit Company, King's Theatre, Hammersmith, performing eight roles.[3][33] From 1954 until 1959, Pinter acted under the stage name David Baron.[34][35] As Batty observes: "Following his brief stint with Wolfit's company in 1953, this was to be Pinter's daily life for five years, and his prime manner of earning a living alongside stints as a waiter, a postman, a bouncer and snow-clearer whilst all the time harbouring ambitions as a poet and writer" (About Pinter 10). In Pinter: The Player's Playwright, David Thompson lists Pinter's performances using his stage name David Baron, including all those in English regional repertory companies, nearly twenty-five roles.[35][36] In October 1989, Pinter told Mel Gussow: "I was in English rep as an actor for about 12 years. My favourite roles were undoubtedly the sinister ones. They're something to get your teeth into" (Conversations with Pinter 83). During that period, he also performed occasional roles in his own and others' works (for radio, TV, and film), as he did later as well.[3][35][37]
Marriage and family life
From 1956 until 1980, Pinter was married to
Though the Pinters had both met Antonia Fraser first in 1969, when Vivien Merchant and she both worked together on a
After spending two years acting and directing whilst living in temporary borrowed and rented quarters, in August 1977, Pinter and Antonia Fraser moved permanently into the Frasers' family home in Holland Park, where he wrote Betrayal (257). After the Frasers' divorce had become final in 1977 and the Pinters' in 1980, in the third week of October 1980, Pinter married Antonia Fraser; however, because of a two-week delay in Vivien Merchant's signing the divorce papers, the reception had to precede the actual ceremony, originally scheduled to occur on 10 October 1980, his 50th birthday (271–72).[39]
Unable to overcome her bitterness and grief at the loss of her husband, Vivien Merchant died of acute alcoholism in the first week of October 1982 at the age of 53 (Billington, Harold Pinter 276).[40] According to Billington, who cites Merchant's close friends and Pinter's associates, Pinter "did everything possible to support" her until her death and regretted that he ultimately became estranged from their son, Daniel, after their separation, Pinter's remarriage, and Vivien Merchant's death (276, 345–47). A reclusive gifted musician and writer (345), Daniel stopped using the surname Pinter in the summer of 1975, when he was living with Pinter and Antonia Fraser, adopting instead Brand, the maiden name of his maternal grandmother. Billington observes: "Eventually, the press fever abated a bit and in late August Pinter and Antonia returned to London, setting up residence in a house in Launceston Place in South Kensington. 'Logistically,' Antonia recalls, 'it was very difficult. Harold couldn't do anything in the house. He [Daniel] was very nice to me at a time when it would have been only too easy for him to have turned on me … simply because he had been the sole focus of his father's love and now manifestly wasn't.' Significantly," Billington adds, "Daniel at this time changed his name from Pinter to Brand, his grandmother's maiden name. Pinter, however, does not see this as a symbolic rejection of himself; it was, he claims, a largely pragmatic move on Daniel's part designed to keep the press, who [at that time] had been relentlessly hounding him also, at bay" (Harold Pinter 254–55). Still unreconciled at the time of his father's death, Daniel Brand did not attend Pinter's funeral.[41]
While Billington observes that "The break-up with Vivien and the new life with Antonia was to have a profound effect on Pinter's personality and his work," he also acknowledges that Fraser herself "is quick to qualify the idea that she had any direct input into his plays and points out that other people [such as Peggy Ashcroft, among others] had a shaping influence on his politics," attributing later changes in his writing and his "engagement with the public world" to the "drastic change" from "an unhappy, complicated personal life ... to a happy, uncomplicated personal life," so that "a side of Harold which had always been there was somehow released. I think you can see that in his work after No Man's Land [1975,] which was a very bleak play" (255).
Pinter stated publicly in interviews that he was content in his second marriage and enjoyed family life with his six adult stepchildren and 17 step-grandchildren.[42] Even after battling cancer for several years, he considered himself "a very lucky man in every respect."[43] According to Sarah Lyall, who interviewed him in London for her Sunday New York Times preview of Sleuth, Pinter's "latest work, a slim pamphlet called 'Six Poems for A.,' comprises poems written over 32 years, with 'A' being Lady Antonia. The first of the poems was written in Paris, where she and Pinter traveled soon after they met. More than three decades later the two were rarely apart, and Mr. Pinter turned soft, even cozy, when he talked about his wife" ("Still Pinteresque" 16). In the interview conducted by Lyall, Pinter "acknowledged that his plays—full of infidelity, cruelty, inhumanity, the lot—seem at odds with his domestic contentment. 'How can you write a happy play?' he said. 'Drama is about conflict and degrees of perturbation, disarray. I've never been able to write a happy play, but I've been able to enjoy a happy life' " ("Still Pinteresque" 16).
Civic activities and political activism
In 1948–49, when he was 18, Pinter opposed the politics of the Cold War, leading to his decision to become a conscientious objector and to refuse to comply with National Service. But he was not a pacifist. He told Billington and others that, if he had been old enough at the time, he would have fought against the Nazis in World War II (Harold Pinter 21–24, 92, & 286). He seemed to express ambivalence about "politicians" in his 1966 Paris Review interview conducted by Lawrence M. Bensky. Yet, he had actually been an early member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the United Kingdom and also had supported the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (1959–1994), participating in British artists' refusal to permit professional productions of their work in South Africa, by signing the "Public Declaration of Playwrights Against Apartheid" in 1963 (Hadley) and in subsequent related campaigns (Mbeki; Reddy).[44]
In his last twenty-five years, Pinter increasingly focused his essays, speeches, interviews, literary readings, and other public appearances directly on contemporary political issues. He strongly opposed the 1991
Career
As actor
Pinter's acting career spanned over fifty years and, despite his critical reputation for generally playing the "
As director
Pinter began to direct more frequently during the 1970s, becoming an associate director of the
As screenwriter
Pinter is the author of 27 screenplays and film scripts for cinema and television, all but four of which were filmed, published, or converted to stage plays. His fame as a screenwriter began with his three screenplays written for films directed by Joseph Losey, leading to their close collaboration and friendship: The Servant (1963), based on the novel by Robin Maugham and starring Dirk Bogarde and James Fox; Accident (1967), adapted from the novel by Nicholas Mosley and starring Bogarde, Pinter's first wife Vivien Merchant, Jacqueline Sassard, Delphine Seyrig, and Michael York; and The Go-Between (1970), based on the novel by L. P. Hartley and starring Alan Bates and Julie Christie.
Pinter also wrote the screenplay for The Pumpkin Eater (1964), adapted from the novel by Penelope Mortimer, directed by Jack Clayton and starring Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, and James Mason and featuring Cedric Hardwicke, Yootha Joyce, Maggie Smith, and others.
Subsequently, Pinter adapted
Films based on Pinter's screenplay adaptations of his own stage plays are
His commissioned screenplay adaptations from others' works for the released films
Pinter's screenwriting career culminated in his last filmed screenplay adaptation of the 1970
As playwright
Pinter is the author of 29 plays and 15 dramatic sketches and the co-author of two works for stage and radio.[7][55] Along with the 1967 Tony Award for Best Play for The Homecoming and several other American awards and award nominations, he and his plays received many awards in the UK and elsewhere throughout the world.[56]
1957–2001
"Comedies of menace" (1957–1968)
- The Room and The Birthday Party (1957)
Pinter's first play, The Room, written and first performed in 1957, was a student production at the University of Bristol, "commissioned" and directed by his good friend (later acclaimed) actor Henry Woolf, who also originated the role of Mr. Kidd (which he reprised in 2001 and 2007).[55] After Pinter had mentioned that he had an "idea" for a play, Woolf asked him to write it so that he could direct it as part of fulfilling requirements for his postgraduate work. Pinter wrote it in three days.[57] To mark and celebrate the 50th anniversary of that first production of The Room, Woolf reprised his role of Mr. Kidd, as well as his role of the Man in Pinter's play Monologue, in April 2007, as part of an international conference at the University of Leeds, Artist and Citizen: 50 Years of Performing Pinter.
Written in 1957 and produced in 1958, Pinter's second play, Hobson was generally credited by Pinter himself and other critics as bolstering him and perhaps even rescuing his career (Billington, Harold Pinter 85); for example, in their September 1993 interview, Pinter told the New York Times critic Mel Gussow
In a review published in 1958, borrowing from the subtitle of The Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace, a play by David Campton (1924–2006), critic Irving Wardle called Pinter's early plays "comedy of menace"—a label that people have applied repeatedly to his work, at times "pigeonholing" and attempting to "tame" it.[59][60] Such plays begin with an apparently innocent situation that becomes both threatening and "absurd" as Pinter's characters behave in ways often perceived as inexplicable by his audiences and one another. Pinter acknowledges the influence of Samuel Beckett, particularly on his early work; they became friends, sending each other drafts of their works in progress for comments.[61]
- The Hothouse (1958/1980), The Dumb Waiter (1959), The Caretaker (1959), and other early plays
Early in his career as a playwright, after writing The Birthday Party, Pinter wrote
Working as both a screenwriter and as a playwright, Pinter composed a script called "
"Memory plays" (1968–1982)
From the late sixties through the early eighties, Pinter wrote
"Overtly political plays" and sketches (1980–2000)
During the 1980s, most particularly following a three-year period of "creative blankness in the early 1980s" after his marriage to Lady Antonia Fraser and the death of Vivien Merchant, as mentioned by Billington (Harold Pinter 258), Pinter's plays tended to become shorter and more overtly political, serving as critiques of oppression, torture, and other abuses of human rights,[64] linked by the apparent "invulnerability of power" (Grimes 119).
First Pinter resurrected The Hothouse, which he had written in 1958, between The Birthday Party and The Caretaker but had set aside until 1979, when, after re-discovering his manuscript, he re-read and made some changes to it and then directed its first production himself at Hampstead Theatre, in London ("Author's Note").[65] Like his other plays of this period, The Hothouse is about authoritarianism and the abuses of power politics, but it is also highly comic, more like his earlier comedies of menace, and Pinter himself played the major role of Roote in a revival at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in 1995.[66]
The brief dramatic sketch
The dramatic sketch The New World Order (1991), according to the Independent on Sunday reviewer Robert Cushman, provides "ten nerve wracking minutes" of two men threatening to torture a third man who is blindfolded, gagged, and bound in a chair; Pinter directed the British première at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, where it opened on 9 July 1991, and the Royal Court production went on to be performed in Washington, D.C.[67] In April 1991, prior to its stage première, he had sent an audio recording of himself reading this sketch for presentation at the International Pinter Festival held by the Harold Pinter Society at The Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio, where a panel was first convened on the subject of Pinter and Politics (Merritt, Pinter in Play xi). The sketch was subsequently performed by Scena Theatre, also in Washington, D.C., in 1994.[67] In the same year, he wrote the longer political satire Party Time (1991), which premièred at the Almeida Theatre, in London, in a double-bill with Mountain Language (1988); it was published first as a play for the stage (Faber, 1991).[68] After Pinter adapted it as a television screenplay in 1992, which he directed when it was transmitted on 17 November of that year, Party Time was published in a new edition by Grove Press in 1993, including additional scenes and camera directions.[69]
Intertwining political and personal concerns, his next full-length plays, Moonlight (1993) and Ashes to Ashes (1996) are set in domestic households and focus on dying and death. Devlin and Rebecca in Ashes to Ashes cite unspecified "atrocities" in their conversations, which allude to details relating to the Holocaust.[70] After experiencing the deaths of first his mother (1992) and then his father (1997), again merging the personal and the political, Pinter wrote the poems "Death" (1997) (which he would read near the end of his 2005 Nobel Lecture) and "The Disappeared" (1998).
Paired with a revival of Pinter's first play,
Grimes ties Celebration to Pinter's next-to-last sketch, Press Conference (2002), which, "like Celebration, invokes both torture and the fragile, circumscribed existence of dissent" (135). For its première in the National Theatre's two-part production of Sketches, despite undergoing chemotherapy at the time, Pinter played the ruthless Minister willing to murder little children for the benefit of "The State".[72]
As the Waiter's often comically unbelievable reminiscences about his grandfather demonstrate in Celebration, Pinter's final stage plays also extend some expressionistic aspects of his earlier "memory plays" whilst harkening back to his "comedies of menace" in the characters whom he must serve and in his final ominous speech concluding Pinter's last play:
My grandfather introduced me to the mystery of life and I'm still in the middle of it. I can't find the door to get out. My grandfather got out of it. He got right out of it. He left it behind him and he didn't look back.
He got that absolutely right.
And I'd like to make one further interjection.
He stands still.
Slow fade. (Celebration [London: Faber, 2000] 72)
Perhaps the Waiter reflects the influence of both Pinter's collaboration with director
2001–2008
From 16 to 31 July 2001, a Harold Pinter Festival celebrating his work curated by
As part of a two-week "Harold Pinter Homage" at the World Leaders Festival of Creative Genius, held from 24 September to 30 October 2001, at Harbourfront Centre, in Toronto, following the reception and during the dinner honouring him, Pinter presented a dramatic reading of Celebration (2000) and also participated in a public interview as part of the International Festival of Authors.[75]
In December 2001, Pinter was diagnosed with
From 9 to 25 January 2003, the Manitoba Theatre Centre, in
On 28 February 2005, in an interview conducted by
In later interviews and correspondence, he vowed to "keep fighting" politically,
His last dramatic work for radio, Voices (2005), a collaboration with composer James Clarke, adapting such selected works by Pinter to music, premièred on BBC Radio 3 on his 75th birthday (10 October 2005), three days before the October 13th announcement that he had won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature (Billington, Harold Pinter 420).
In an interview of Pinter on 12 March 2006, conducted as part of the
In June 2006, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) hosted "a celebration of [Pinter's] work in cinema," curated by his friend and fellow playwright David Hare, described as "a brilliant selection of film clips" which Hare introduced by saying: "To jump back into the world of Pinter's movies ... is to remind yourself of a literate mainstream cinema, focused as much as Bergman's is on the human face, in which tension is maintained by a carefully crafted mix of image and dialogue" (Billington, Harold Pinter 429).
Pinter occasionally left open the possibility that if a compelling dramatic "image" were to come to mind (though "not likely"), he would perhaps have pursued it. After making this point, with Rupert Graves in another location on screen, Pinter performed a dramatic reading of his "new work," "Apart From That", at the end of the interview conducted by Wark, broadcast live on Newsnight on 23 June 2006. This "very funny" dramatic sketch was inspired by Pinter's strong aversion to mobile telephones; "as two people trade banalities over their mobile phones there is a hint of something ominous and unspoken behind the clichéd chat" (Billington, Harold Pinter 429).
In an account of Pinter's interview conducted by Ramona Koval at the Edinburgh International Book Festival "Meet the Author" in late August 2006, Robinson reports: "Pinter, whose last published play came out in 2000, said the reason he had given up writing was that he had 'written himself out', adding: 'I recently had a holiday in Dorset and took a couple of my usual yellow writing pads. I didn't write a damn word. Fondly, I turned them over and put them in a drawer.' " It appeared to Robinson that "despite giving up writing [Pinter] will carry on his acting career." From another perspective, however, as Eden and Walker observe: "So keenly is Harold Pinter relishing his return to the stage this autumn [in Samuel Beckett's one-act monologue Krapp's Last Tape] that he has put his literary career on the back burner." Pinter said: "It's a great challenge and I'm going to have a crack at it."[82]
After returning to London from Edinburgh, in September 2006, he began rehearsing for his performance of the role of Krapp, which, the next month, he performed from a motorized wheelchair in a limited run at the Royal Court Theatre to sold-out audiences and "ecstatic" critical reviews.[83] The production of only nine performances, from 12 October, two days after Pinter's 76th birthday, to 24 October 2006, was the most sought-after ticket in London during the 50th-anniversary celebration season of the Royal Court Theatre; his performances sold out within minutes on the first morning of general ticket sales (4 September 2006).[84] One performance was filmed, produced on DVD, and shown on BBC Four on 21 June 2007.
Also in 2006, Sheffield Theatres hosted Pinter: A Celebration for a full month (11 Oct.–11 Nov. 2006). It featured selected productions of Pinter's plays (in order of presentation): The Caretaker, Voices, No Man's Land, Family Voices, Tea Party, The Room, One for the Road, and The Dumb Waiter; films (most his screenplays; some in which Pinter appears as an actor): The Go-Between, Accident, The Birthday Party, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Reunion, Mojo, The Servant, and The Pumpkin Eater; and other related events: Pause for Thought (Penelope Wilton and Douglas Hodge in conversation with Michael Billington), Ashes to Ashes—A Cricketing Celebration, a Pinter Quiz Night, the BBC Two documentary film Arena: Harold Pinter (introd. Anthony Wall, producer of Arena), The New World Order—A Pause for Peace (a consideration of "Pinter's pacifist writing" [both poems and prose] supported by the Sheffield Quakers), and a screening of "Pinter's passionate and antagonistic 45-minute Nobel Prize Lecture."[85]
In 2007, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of The Dumb Waiter,
Revivals in 2008 included the 40th anniverary production of the American première of The Homecoming on
The final revival during Pinter's lifetime was a production of No Man's Land, directed by
I might even show you my photograph album. You might even see a face in it which might remind you of your own, of what you once were. You might see faces of others, in shadow, or cheeks of others, turning, or jaws, or backs of necks, or eyes, dark under hats, which might remind you of others, whom once you knew, whom you thought long dead, but from whom you will still receive a sidelong glance, if you can face the good ghost. Allow the love of the good ghost. They possess all that emotion . . . trapped. Bow to it. It will assuredly never release them, but who knows . . . what relief . . . it may give them . . . who knows how they may quicken . . . in their chains, in their glass jars. You think it cruel . . . to quicken them, when they are fixed, imprisoned? No . . . no. Deeply, deeply, they wish to respond to your touch, to your look, and when you smile, their joy . . . is unbounded. And so I say to you, tender the dead, as you would yourself be tendered, now, in what you would describe as your life. (69–70 of No Man's Land, in Four Plays)[87]
Posthumous events (2008–2010)
Funeral (31 December 2008)
Several accounts of the private funeral held for Pinter, a "half-hour ceremony conducted around the graveside" at
Memorial tributes
The night before Pinter's New Year's Eve burial, theatre marquees on
After Pinter's death, at the end of January 2009, the Sydney Festival (then in progress), Dublin's Gate Theatre, and the Sydney Theatre Company, whose co-artistic directors are Australian actress Cate Blanchett and her husband, Andrew Upton, announced that, on Sunday, 1 February, there would be a free, hour-long performance of readings from Pinter's works as a tribute to him. It was directed and introduced by Colgan and featured Blanchett, fellow Australian actor Robert Menzies (grandson of former Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies and her co-star in The War of the Roses Cycle), and Gate Theatre actors Niall Buggy and Owen Roe. In their public statement, Blanchett and Upton "acknowledged the playwright's legacy," saying: "We are delighted to join with Sydney Festival and Ireland's celebrated Gate Theatre in this event marking the passing of one of the 20th century's theatre greats, Harold Pinter, whose influence over playwriting and performance has been so profound."[89] In his account of this event, John McCallum, Sydney theatre critic for the Australian, observes: "The occasion … was sad, but also a time for celebration"; after asking "Was it Pinter, or Blanchett and her fellow stars who drew the crowds?" and stating "Either way, they queued from midday for the 2pm start, to snap up the 900 tickets, allocated on a first-come, first-served basis," McCallum concludes: "It was a fine tribute. If some of the audience came for Blanchett, they left with Pinter."[90]
On Saturday, 2 May 2009, from 11 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., a free public Harold Pinter Memorial Celebration: A Tribute to Harold Pinter, curated by
Editor
On 16 June 2009, Lady Antonia Fraser officially opened the Harold Pinter Room & Studio at the Hackney Empire, renaming the Hackney Empire Hospitality Suite.[95] This memorial event, attended by invited guests, also launched the Pinter Residency, "intended to establish the Hackney Empire as a centre for writers".[96] Its first recipient is social activist and writer Jan Woolf, of Cricklewood, whose play Porn Crackers is being performed at the Hackney Empire on 15, 16, and 19 July 2009.[96][97]
At a memorial cricket charity match on 27 September 2009, at
Prior to Pinter's death, Irish theatre director
Honours
An Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and an Honorary Fellow of the Modern Language Association of America (1970), Pinter was appointed CBE in 1966 and became a Companion of Honour in 2002 (having previously declined a knighthood in 1996). In 1995 and 1996 he accepted the David Cohen Prize, in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement, and the Laurence Olivier Special Award for a lifetime's achievement in the theatre, respectively. In 1997 he became a BAFTA Fellow. He received the World Leaders Award for "Creative Genius" as the subject of a week-long "Homage" in Toronto, in October 2001. A few years later, in 2004, he received the Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry—"in recognition of Pinter's lifelong contribution to literature, 'and specifically for his collection of poetry entitled War, published in 2003' " (Wilfred Owen Association Newsletter). In March 2006 he was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize, in recognition of lifetime achievements pertaining to drama and theatre ("Letter of Motivation"). In conjunction with that award, Michael Billington coordinated an international conference on Pinter: Passion, Poetry, Politics, including scholars and critics from Europe and the Americas, held in Turin, Italy, from 10 to 14 March 2006 (Harold Pinter 427–28).[8][81]
Nobel Prize in Literature
On 13 October 2005 the Swedish Academy announced that it had decided to award the Nobel Prize in Literature for that year to "Harold Pinter ... Who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms" (press release), instigating some public controversy and criticism relating both to characteristics of Pinter's work and to his politics.[46]
When interviewed that day about his own reaction to the Nobel Prize announcement by Billington, Pinter joked: "I was told today that one of the Sky channels said this morning that 'Harold Pinter is dead'. Then they changed their mind and said, 'No, he's won the Nobel prize.' So I've risen from the dead" (Billington, "They said").
Nobel Week, including the
"Art, Truth and Politics": The Nobel Lecture
Though still hospitalised, Pinter went to a Channel 4 studio to videotape his Nobel Lecture: "Art, Truth and Politics," which was projected on three large screens at the Swedish Academy, in Stockholm, on the evening of 7 December 2005.[6][98]
Simultaneously transmitted on
Pinter's Nobel Lecture "Art, Truth and Politics" provoked extensive public controversy, with some media commentators accusing Pinter of "anti-Americanism" (Allen-Mills). Yet in it he emphasizes that he criticizes policies and practices of American administrations (and those who voted for them), not all American citizens, many of whom he recognizes as "demonstrably sickened, shamed and angered by their government's actions," adding "but as things stand they are not a coherent political force — yet."[99]
As a result of his Nobel Prize and his controversial Nobel Lecture, interest in Pinter's life and work surged. They led to new revivals of his plays, to Billington's updating his biography (retitled Harold Pinter), and to new editions of Pinter's works, such as The Essential Pinter and The Dwarfs, by
Légion d'honneur
On 18 January 2007 the French Prime Minister
Pinter and academia
Some scholars and critics challenge the validity of Pinter's critiques of what he terms "the modes of thinking of those in power" (Merritt, Pinter in Play 171–89; 180) or dissent from his retrospective viewpoints on his own work (Begley; Karwowski; and Quigley).
In his personal political history, however,
Pinter's own "political act" of conscientious objection resulted from being "terribly disturbed as a young man by the Cold War. And McCarthyism.... A profound hypocrisy. 'They' the monsters, 'we' the good. In 1948 the Russian suppression of Eastern Europe was an obvious and brutal fact, but I felt very strongly then and feel as strongly now [1985] that we have an obligation to subject our own actions and attitudes to an equivalent critical and moral scrutiny." (Merritt, Pinter in Play 178)
Scholars agree that Pinter's dramatic rendering of power relations results from such astute "critical and moral scrutiny."[101]
Pinter's aversion to any censorship by "the authorities" is epitomised in Petey's line at the end of The Birthday Party. As the broken-down and reconstituted Stanley is being carted off by the figures of authority Goldberg and McCann, Petey calls out after him, "Stan, don't let them tell you what to do!" "I've lived that line all my damn life. Never more than now," Pinter told Gussow in 1988.[102] The example of Pinter's stalwart opposition to what he termed "the modes of thinking of those in power"—the "brick wall" of the "minds" perpetuating the "status quo" (Merritt, Pinter in Play 180)—infused the "vast political pessimism" that some academic critics may perceive in his artistic work (Grimes 220), its "drowning landscape" of harsh contemporary realities, with some residual "hope for restoring the dignity of man" (Pinter, Art, Truth and Politics 9, 24).
As Pinter's longtime friends the directors and actors
The trap with Harold’s work, for performers and audiences, is to approach it too earnestly or portentously. I have always tried to interpret his plays with as much humor and humanity as possible. There is always mischief lurking in the darkest corners. The world of The Caretaker is a bleak one, its characters damaged and lonely. But they are all going to survive. And in their dance to that end they show a frenetic vitality and a wry sense of the ridiculous that balance heartache and laughter. Funny, but not too funny. As Pinter wrote, back in 1960 : "As far as I am concerned The Caretaker IS funny, up to a point. Beyond that point, it ceases to be funny, and it is because of that point that I wrote it."[103]
His dramatic conflicts present serious implications for his characters and his audiences, leading to sustained inquiry about "the point" of his work and multiple "critical strategies" for developing interpretations and stylistic analyses of it (Merritt, Pinter in Play).
On 9 October 2008, the
Archive
Pinter's unpublished manuscripts and letters to and from him are held in the Modern Literary Manuscripts division of the
See also
- Antonia Fraser's forthcoming memoir of Harold Pinter entitled Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter
- Being Harold Pinter (Belarus Free Theatre)
- Jewish left
- Michael Billington's critical biography entitled Harold Pinter
Notes
- ^ Obituaries and related articles.
- ^ a b See Pinter's memoir of this experience, his tribute to Irish actor and stage impresario Anew (Mac) McMaster, in "Mac", Various Voices (2008) 36–43. Cf. Niall Mathews, "Anew McMaster, Actor and Impresario", irishtimes.com, Letter to the Editor, The Irish Times, 7 July 2008, Web, 22 June 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Acting" and "Directing" sections of HaroldPinter.org, compiled by Mark Batty, provide details of Pinter's extensive career as an actor and director.
- ^ Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
- ^ a b c See Billington," 'I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?' "; cf. Billington, Harold Pinter 395.
- ^ a b c d e f Cf. Lyall, "Still Pinteresque".
- ^ a b c See "Biobibliographical Notes" (including secondary sources of works cited in its attached bibliography); Billington, Harold Pinter; Merritt, Pinter in Play; and Grimes.
- ^ a b c d Billington, Introd., "Pinter: Passion, Poetry, Politics," Europe Theatre Prize–X Edition, Turin, 10–12 Mar. 2006. Cf. Billington, "Memory Man" and " 'Let's Keep Fighting' " (chap. 29 and "Afterword"), Harold Pinter 388–94 & 395–430, resp.
- ^ Merritt, Pinter in Play xi–xxv, 170–209, 174–75; Billington, Harold Pinter 286–338; and Grimes 19.
- ^ See "Biobibliographical Notes", a section of the "Bio-bibliography" for "Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize in Literature 2005."
- ^ See Bensky; Gussow, Conversations; and Wark's interview of Pinter televised on Newsnight Review on 23 June 2006.
- ^ Obituaries and related articles.
- ^ Harold Pinter, qtd. in Gussow, Conversations with Pinter 103; Billington, Harold Pinter 1–2.
- ^ a b See Billington, Harold Pinter on Pinter's earliest poetry and short prose (29–35), his acting in school plays as a teenager (13–14), and his David Baron years (3, 47–48ff.).
- Obituaries and related articles).
- ^ Billington draws upon B. S. Johnson, "Evacuees" (1968; published 1994), which includes Pinter's own account.
- Faber, 2009): " 'Various Voices' is the only collection of Harold Pinter's prose, poems and political writing to span his career. This new edition includes a remarkable interview in which he reflects on his time as an evacuee in Cornwall during the Second World War, as well as new prose, poems and his Nobel Lecture" (back cover).
- The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library (Brown, "British Library's £1.1m Saves Pinter's Papers for Nation" and Howard, "British Library Acquires Pinter Papers"). Documenting the importance of Brearley's influence throughout Pinter's life and work, his memorial epistolary poem "Joseph Brearley 1909–1977 (Teacher of English)" appears in Pinter's collection Various Voices (2008); it ends with the following stanza: "You're gone. I'm at your side,/Walking with you from Clapton Pond to Finsbury Park,/And on, and on" (177).
- ^ a b See also "Introduction by Harold Pinter, Nobel Laureate", 7–9 in 'Fortune's Fool': The Man Who Taught Harold Pinter: A Life of Joe Brearley (2008), ed. G. L. Watkins.
- DalstonCounty Secondary School (DCSS), which had co-produced the production starring Pinter as Romeo and Betty Lemon as Juliet, directed by Joseph Brearley.
- ^ Editorial interpolations within brackets are based on bibliographical information compiled by Baker and Ross 127–28.
- ^ a b Cf. Baker, "Growing Up," chap. 1 of Harold Pinter 2–23.
- ^ The section on the "Gaieties Cricket Club" (hyperlinked as "Cricket") is directly accessible from the main lefthand menu of the home and index page of HaroldPinter.org, Harold Pinter, 2000–[2009], Web, 26 Apr. 2009.
- ^ a b c In "Portrait of Harold Pinter Playing Cricket to Be Sold at Auction", as published in the Times (24 Mar. 2009), citing "the actor and Pinter's cricketing colleague" Harry Burton, Adam Sherwin reports that the portrait "is to be auctioned before a celebratory game at Lord's" being planned by Pinter's friends to take place on 27 Sept. 2009 between the Gaieties and the Lord's Taverners in order "to raise funds for disadvantaged kids in Hackney". (For more current information about this memorial event, see below.)
- ^ on Pinter's official website.)
- ^ Cf. "News: Win an Exclusive Harold Pinter Portrait", Lord's Taverners, Lord's Taverners, 23 Mar. 2009, Web, 26 Apr. 2009.
- ^ This essay was accessible via "listen again" on the BBC Radio Player for 7 days after its broadcast; "Harold Pinter & Cricket" is linked on his Matahari Films website accessible via "Win an Exclusive Harold Pinter Portrait", Lord's Taverners, News, 23 Mar. 2009, Web, 26 Apr. 2009; hyperlinked in "Upcoming Events for the Year 2009", HaroldPinter.org, Harold Pinter, 2000–[2009], Web, 26 Apr. 2009.
- ^ See, e.g. Gussow, Conversations with Pinter 25–30; Billington, Harold Pinter 7–16; Merritt, Pinter in Play 194.
- Guardian on 12 July 2007: "As a schoolboy, Harold Pinter took on bullies and fought with fascists. Later, as a playwright, he took on the entire critical establishment. Henry Woolf, who is appearing in a revival of The Hothouse, relives his lifelong friendship with the writer."
- ^ See Billington, Harold Pinter 20–25, 31–35; and Batty, About Pinter 7.
- ^ See Billington, Harold Pinter 37 and Batty, About Pinter 8; cf. Batty, "Chronology" (xiii-xvi) and chap. 1 "East End to West End" (1-11), in About Pinter.
- ^ See Billington, Harold Pinter 31, 36, 38; and Batty, About Pinter xiii, 8.
- ^ See Billington, Harold Pinter 20–25; 31, 36, 37–41.
- ^ Pinter's paternal "grandmother's maiden name was Baron ... he adopted it as his stage-name ... [and] used it [Baron] for the autobiographical character of Mark in the first draft of [his novel] The Dwarfs" (Billington, Harold Pinter 3, 47–48).
- ^ The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library (BL) and still subject to Pinter's ongoing copyright protecting it, as controlled by his estate. For further information relating to the BL's procedures and permission requests pertaining to use of any of these materials, see "Manuscript Collections: Copyright Guidance".
- ^ Cited in Billington, Harold Pinter 49–55.
- ^ See Billington, Harold Pinter 20–25, 31, 36, 38.
- ^ For an example of such "press fascination," see "People" in the issue of Time published the following week (11 Aug. 1975).
- Bibliography for Harold Pinter § Obituaries and related articles
Works cited and further reading
- [For individual works by Pinter and related stage productions cited, see their classified entries listed in Bibliography for Harold Pinter.]
Bio-bibliography
Baker, William, and John C. Ross, comps. Harold Pinter: A Bibliographical History. London: The
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(help)Spring – Summer 2007 Catalogue (9.25 MB). Oak Knoll Press, 2007. Web"Biobibliographical Notes" and "Bibliography" for "Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize in Literature 2005." In "Bio-bibliography". By The Swedish Academy. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005. nobelprize.org. The Swedish Academy and The Nobel Foundation, Oct. 2005. Web. 6 Jan. 2009. (English HTML version.) [Additional PDF versions accessible in English, French, German, and Swedish via hyperlinks.]
Harold Pinter: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (1960–1980).
"Links: Libraries and Academia" and "Publications": "Works By" and "Works About" Pinter. haroldpinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2000–[2009]. Web. 18 Apr. 2009.
Merritt, Susan Hollis, comp. "Harold Pinter Bibliography". SusanHollisMerritt.org. Susan Hollis Merritt, 2009. Web. 18 Apr. 2009. (Webpage pertaining to the "Harold Pinter Bibliography" published in The Pinter Review. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1987– .)
–––. "Harold Pinter Bibliography: 2000–2002." The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 2003 and 2004. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2004. 242–300. Print.
–––. "Harold Pinter Bibliography: 2002–2004 With a Special Supplement on the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, October 2005 – May 2006." The Pinter Review: Nobel Prize/Europe Theatre Prize Volume: 2005 – 2008. Ed. Francis Gillen with Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2008. 261–343. Print.
The Pinter Review. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1987– ). Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2000–[2008]. Web. 3 Jan. 2009. [Table of contents of past issues, retyped on index Webpage; occasional typographical variations.]
The Pinter Review: Nobel Prize/Europe Theatre Prize Volume: 2005 – 2008. Ed. Francis Gillen with Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2008.
The Swedish Academy. "Bio-bibliography: Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize in Literature 2005". NobelPrize.org. The Swedish Academy and The Nobel Foundation, 2005. Web. 5 Jan. 2009. (Contains both "Biobibliographical Notes" and ""Bibliography", with the latter hyperlinked separately in site menu.)
Selected multimedia resources
BWW News Desk. "Photo Flash: No Man's Land at the Duke of York....Photos by Jeremy Whelehan". BroadwayWorld.com. Broadway World, 10 Nov. 2008. Web. 26 Dec. 2008.
Celebration (2000).
Harold Pinter: Art, Truth & Politics: The Nobel Prize Lecture. © Copyright 2006 Illuminations. All Rights Reserved. Transmission Channel 4, 2005.
Selected interviews
Batty, Mark. "Pinter Views: Pinter on Pinter." 79–153 (chap. 8) in Batty, About Pinter. Print.
Bensky, Lawrence M. "The Art of Theatre No. 3: Harold Pinter". Paris Rev. 10.39 (Fall 1966): 12–37. Print. Excerpt from archived contents of journal; hyperlinked ""The Art of Theatre No. 3: Harold Pinter"" (PDF). (280 KB). Paris Review. Paris Review Foundation, Inc., 2004. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. [A frequently-cited source of Pinter's early views.]
–––, comp. " 'They said you've a call from the Nobel committee. I said, why?': Harold Pinter in His Own Words".
Bull, Andy. "Playwright Harold Pinter's Last Interview Reveals His Childhood Love of Cricket and Why It Is Better Than Sex".
Burton, Harry. "Harold Pinter - Interview (MP3, 47mins, 19MB)" (Golden Generation conference podcast). British Library Online Gallery: What's On. British Library, 8 Sept. 2008. Web. 14 Mar. 2009. Downloadable MP3 podcast. ["Harold Pinter shares his memories of postwar British theatre with actor and director Harry Burton." Introduced by Jamie Andrews (Head, Modern Literary Manuscripts, British Library) and recorded at the Golden Generation conference, held at the British Library on 8–9 Sept. 2008.]
Hern, Nicholas, and Harold Pinter. "A Play and Its Politics: A Conversation between Harold Pinter and Nicholas Hern." February 1985. 5–23 in Pinter, One for the Road. Print.
Johnson, B. S. "Evacuees" (1968). The Pinter Review: Annual Essays 1994. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1994. 8-13. Print.
Jones, Rebecca, and Harold Pinter. Interview.
Koval, Ramona. "Harold Pinter". Books and Writing with Ramona Koval.
. Transcript.–––. "Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize-Winning Playwright and Poet, at
Lawson, Mark. "Pinter 'to give up writing plays' ". Inc. "Pinter on Front Row". Broadcast on BBC Radio 4. BBC News, 28 Feb. 2005 (last updated). Web. 11 Nov. 2006 & 2 Oct. 2007. Radio. (RealPlayer audio.)
Lyall, Sarah. "Still Pinteresque".
Riddell, Mary. "The New Statesman Interview: Harold Pinter". New Statesman. New Statesman, 8 Nov. 1999. Web. 6 Jan. 2009. [Includes audio clip.]
. 14 Mar. 2009. [Rebroadcast of "A Conversation with Harold Pinter" (filmed at the Old Vic Theatre and first broadcast on 1 Mar. 2007). Introduced as "An appreciation of English dramatist, actor and theater director Harold Pinter who died on December 24, 2008" ("In memoriam"). (52 mins., 52 secs.; buffered).]–––. "A Conversation with Harold Pinter."
–––. "A Conversation with Harold Pinter" (Filmed at the
Wark, Kirsty. "Harold Pinter on Newsnight Review". BBC News. BBC, 23 June 2006. Web. 6 Jan. 2009. ["Kirsty Wark introduces her interview with Harold Pinter, which aired on Newsnight Review, Friday 23 June, at 11pm on BBC TWO." (See below).]
–––. "Interviews: Nobel Prize Winning Playwright Harold Pinter Talks to Kirsty Wark". Newsnight Review. BBC Two, London, 23 June 2006. Television. BBC News. BBC, 25 June 2006. Web. 6 Jan. 2009. RealPlayer streaming video. (See above.)
Official authorised biography
Other selected secondary sources
Agencies. " 'The foremost representative of British drama': Excerpts from the Swedish Academy's Citation Awarding the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature to British Playwright Harold Pinter."
Allen-Mills, Tony. "This Pinter Guy Could Turn Into a Pain".
Anderson, Porter. "Harold Pinter: Theater's Angry Old Man: At the Prize of Europe, the Playwright Is All Politics." CNN.com. CNN, 17 Mar. 2006. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
Baker, William. Harold Pinter. Writers' Lives Series. London and New York:
Batiukov, Michael. "Belarus 'Free Theatre' Is Under Attack by Militia in Minsk, Belarus". American Chronicle. Ultio, LLC, 22 Aug. 2007. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
Batty, Mark. About Pinter: The Playwright and the Work. London: Faber, 2005.
Begley, Varun. Harold Pinter and the Twilight of Modernism. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2005.
–––. "Krapp's Last Tape: 4 Stars Royal Court, London".
–––. "Passionate Pinter's Devastating Assault On US Foreign Policy: Shades of Beckett As Ailing Playwright Delivers Powerful Nobel Lecture."
–––. "We Are Catching Up With This Man's Creative Talent At Last".
Bond, Paul. "Harold Pinter's Artistic Achievement". World Socialist Web Site. World Socialist Web Site, 29 Dec. 2005. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
Brantley, Ben. "Harold Pinter". New York Times, Times Topics . New York Times Company, 2009 (updated periodically). Web. 6 Jan. 2009. [Introd. to hyperlinked Harold Pinter News––New York Times; includes menu of recommended external links.]
–––. "A Master of Menace." (Audio file.) (See "Multimedia resources" listed below.)
Brown, Mark. "What Is It (War) Good for?" Socialist Review. Socialist Review, Sept. 2003. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. [Book rev. of War, by Harold Pinter.]
"Bush and Blair Slated by Pinter". BBC News. BBC, 7 Dec. 2005. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. (Features related links.)
The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter. Ed. Peter Raby. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.
–––. "Central's 2008 Graduation Ceremony: Honorary Fellowships for Harold Pinter,
Chrisafis, Angelique, and Imogen Tilden. "Pinter Blasts 'Nazi America' and 'deluded idiot' Blair".
Coppa, Francesca. "The Sacred Joke: Comedy and Politics in Pinter's Early Plays." 44–56 in The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter. Ed. Peter Raby. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001. Print. Cambridge Collections Online. Cambridge University Press, n.d. Web. 4 Jan. 2009. [Extract; registered account required for access to full text.]
"Death of Vivien Merchant Is Ascribed to Alcoholism". New York Times. New York Times Company, 7 Oct. 1982. Web. 3 Oct. 2007.
"Degree Honour for Playwright Pinter". AOL.co.uk.
Dougary, Ginny. "Lady Antonia Fraser's Life Less Ordinary: In a Frank Interview, the Famed Writer Talks about Motherhood, Catholicism, Her Parents and Soulmate Harold Pinter."
Eden, Richard, and Tim Walker. "Mandrake: A Pinteresque Silence".
Ferguson, Niall. "Personal View: Do the Sums, Then Compare US and Communist Crimes from the Cold War". Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group, 11 Dec. 2005. Web. 9 May 2009.
French Embassy in the
"French PM Honours Harold Pinter". BBC News. BBC, 18 Jan. 2007. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
Grimes, Charles. Harold Pinter's Politics: A Silence Beyond Echo. Madison & Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson UP; Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2005.
Gussow, Mel. "Critic's Notebook: On the London Stage, a Feast of Revenge, Menace and Guilt." New York Times. New York Times Company, 31 July 1991. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. (Site registration may be required.)
Hadley, Kathryn. "Forward to Freedom". History Today News, History in the News. History Today Magazine, 15 June 2009. Web. 25 June 2009.
"Harold Pinter Added to IFOA Lineup". Press release. International Festival of Authors (IFOA), Toronto, 1 Oct. 2001.
"Harold Pinter Taken to Hospital". BBC News. BBC, 30 Nov. 2005. Web. 7 May 2009.
Hitchens, Christopher. "Opinion: The Sinister Mediocrity of Harold Pinter". Wall Street Jour. 17 Oct. 2005, A18. Print. Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones & Company), 17 Oct. 2005. Web. 7 May 2009. [Electronic ed.; printable version "for personal, non-commercial use only."]
Hobson, Harold. "The Screw Turns Again." Sunday Times 25 May 1958: 11. Print. (Cited in Merritt, Pinter in Play.) Rpt. in The Birthday Party. HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2000–[2008]. Web. 3 Oct. 2007. (See also "Stage productions" listed above.)
Hodgson, Martin. "British Jews Break Away from 'pro-Israeli' Board of Deputies".
Honigsbaum, Mark. "Publisher to Stand In for Pinter at Nobel Ceremony".
Howard, Jennifer. "Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Harold Pinter, British Playwright Widely Studied in Academe". Chronicle of Higher Education. Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 Oct. 2006. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
Jones, David. "Travels with Harold". Front & Center Online ("The Online Version of Roundabout Theatre Company's Subscriber Magazine"). Roundabout Theatre Company, Fall 2003. Web. 9 Oct. 2007. (3 pages.) ["David Jones' Staging of The Caretaker for Roundabout Culminates a 40-Year Career Acting and Directing the Work of Harold Pinter. Here the Director Looks Back."]
"Letter of Motivation for the European Theatre Prize". 10th Edition of the Europe Theatre Prize to Harold Pinter ("X Premio Europa per il teatro a Harold Pinter"). premio-europa.org. Europe Theatre Prize, Turin, Italy, 8–12 Mar. 2006. Web. 10 Mar. 2009.
Lyall, Sarah. "Playwright Takes a Prize and a Jab at U.S." New York Times. New York Times Company, 8 Dec. 2006. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. [Correction appended 10 Dec. 2005: "An article on Thursday about the playwright Harold Pinter's criticism of American foreign policy in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for literature described it incompletely. He said that both President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair - and not just Prime Minister Blair - should be tried before the International Criminal Court of Justice for the invasion of Iraq."]
Mbeki, Thabo. "Letter from the President: Hail the Nobel Laureates - Apostles of Human Curiosity!". ANC Today ("Online Voice of the African National Congress") 5.42 (21–27 Oct. 2005). African National Congress, 12 Nov. 2007. Web.
[McDowell, Leslie.] "Book Festival Reviews: Pinter at 75: The Anger Still Burns: Harold Pinter". The Scotsman 26 Aug. 2006: 5. Print. The Scotsman Publications Limited (Johnston Press Plc), (updated) 27 Aug. 2006. Web. 6 Jan. 2009.
Merritt, Susan Hollis. "(Anti-)Global Pinter." The Pinter Review: Nobel Prize/Europe Theatre Prize Volume: 2005 – 2008. Ed. Francis Gillen with Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2008. 140–67. Print.
–––. "Europe Theatre Prize Celebration -- Turin, Italy." Harold Pinter Society Newsletter, Fall 2006. Web. (Downloadable electronic document sent to members.)
–––. Pinter in Play: Critical Strategies and the Plays of Harold Pinter. 1990. Durham and London: Duke UP, 1995.
–––. "Talking about Pinter." (On the Lincoln Center Festival 2001: Harold Pinter Festival Symposia.) The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 2001 and 2002. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2002. 144–67. Print.
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Quigley, Austin E. "Pinter, Politics and Postmodernmism (I)." 7–27 in The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter. Print.
Reddy, E.S. "Free Mandela: An Account of the Campaign to Free Nelson Mandela and All Other Political Prisoners in South Africa." African National Congress (ANC): Documents: History of Campaigns. African National Congress, July 1988. Web. 5 Jan. 2009.
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Robinson, David. "Books: Doyle Returns to an Old Favourite in New Work; . . . Harold Pinter". Scotsman, Living. Scotsman, 28 Aug. 2006. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
–––. "I'm Written Out, Says Controversial Pinter". Scotsman 26 Aug. 2006: 6. Print. Scotsman, 26 Aug. 2006. Web. 26 Aug. 2006.
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Smith, Alastair. "Pinter Replaces Mandelson as Central President". Stage. Stage Newspaper Limited, 14 Oct. 2008. Web. 15 Oct. 2008.
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"Special Report: The Nobel Prize for Literature: 2005 Harold Pinter".
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Toíbín, Colm. "Pinter Takes On Beckett".
Traub, James. "The Way We Live Now: Their Highbrow Hatred of Us". New York Times Mag.. New York Times Company, 30 Oct. 2005. Web. 30 Oct 2005. (Site registration may be required.)
"Travel Advisory: Toronto Festival Honors 14 Leaders in the Arts". New York Times (Archive). New York Times Company, 9 Sept. 2001. Web. 4 Oct. 2007. (Site registration may be required.)
Wardle, Irving. "The Birthday Party."
–––. "Comedy of Menace." Encore 5 (Sept.–Oct. 1958): 28–33. Rpt. in The Encore Reader and New Theatre Voices 86–91. Print.
–––. "Pinter, Harold." 657–58 in The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama. Ed. John Gassner and Edward Quinn. New York: Crowell, 1969. Print.
–––. "There's Music in That Room." Encore 7 (July–Aug. 1960): 32–34. Rpt. in The Encore Reader and New Theatre Voices 129–32. Print.
Wilfred Owen Association Newsletter 4 Aug. 2004. Print.
Abbott, Diane. "Diane Abbott Calls for Pinter Cinema". DianeAbbott.org.uk. Diane Abbott Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (site funded from the Parliamentary Members Communications Allowance), 16 Jan. 2009. Web. 28 Jan. 2009. Press release.
Adams, Stephen. "Harold Pinter Directs His Own Funeral". Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group, 31 Dec. 2008. Web. 6 Jan. 2009. ["His plays were masterpieces of artistic control. And even at his own funeral Harold Pinter made sure he exerted a director's influence."]
Alderman, Geoffrey. "Editorial: Harold Pinter - A Jewish View". Current Viewpoint. Current viewpoint.com, 27 Mar. 2009. Web. 25 Apr. 2009.
Andrews, Jamie. " 'Tender the dead, as you yourself would be tendered...' ". Harold Pinter Archive Blog: British Library Curators on Cataloguing the Pinter Archive. British Library, 6 Jan. 2009. Web. 6 Jan. 2009.
Baker, Terry. "Harold Pinter and the Sports Field." The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School 3.2 (Mar. 2009): 10. Print.
–––. "Harold Pinter".
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Brooks, Melvyn. "A Memory of Harold Pinter." The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School 3.2 (Mar. 2009): 14. Print.
Cavendish, Dominic. "Harold Pinter: How the Theatre World Saw Him". Telegraph, Blogs. Telegraph Media Group, 26 Dec. 2008. Web. 5 May 2009. (Reprints an article that Cavendish "compiled for the Telegraph shortly after Pinter turned 70 – back in Ocober 2000 – on the eve of the 40th anniversary reval of 'The Caretaker', the play which catapulted him to fame and fortune."]
Daily Mail Reporter. "Breaking News: Nobel Prize-winning Playwright Harold Pinter Dies Aged 78".
Dodds, Paisley (Associated Press). "Nobel-winning Playwright Harold Pinter Dies at 78". ABC News. American Broadcasting Company, 25 Dec. 2008. Web. 14 Mar. 2009.
–––. " 'You want to free the world from oppression?' ".
Driscoll, Margarette. "Yo, Grandpa Pinter, Big Respect".
Eden, Richard. "Harold Pinter Faces Opposition to Memorial in Poet's Corner". Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group, 3 Jan. 2009. Web. 3 Jan. 2009.
"Editorial: Harold Pinter: Breaking the Rules".
Edwardes, Jane. "Time Out's Tribute to Harold Pinter". Time Out London, Theatre. Time Out Group Ltd., 31 Dec. 2008. Web. 10 May 2009.
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"Friends Bid Pinter Farewell". BBC News. BBC, 1 Jan. 2009. Web. 1 Jan. 2009.
Greenhill, Sam. "Theatreland in Mourning As Nobel Prize-winning Playwright Harold Pinter Dies Aged 78".
Gussow, Mel, and Ben Brantley."Harold Pinter, Playwright of the Pause, Dies at 78". New York Times. New York Times Company, 25 Dec. 2008, Theater. Web. 26 Dec. 2008. [Web version of article listed below.]
–––. "Harold Pinter, Whose Silences Redefined Drama, Dies at 78." New York Times 26 Dec. 2008, national ed., sec. A: 1, A22–23. Print. [Cites "Online: A Pinter Appraisal: An audio evaluation by Ben Brantley, reviews of Mr. Pinter's plays and more". Print version of article listed above.]
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"Harold Pinter Mourned by PEN". English PEN, News. English Centre of
"Harold Pinter 1930 – 2008". National Theatre, Theatre News. National Theatre, 29 Dec. 2008. Web. 5 May 2009.
"Harold Pinter 1930–2008: Great Playwright, Nobel Laureate – and TLS Cricketer".
"Harold Pinter: One of the Most Influential British Playwrights of Modern Times". Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 26 Dec. 2008. Web. 5 May 2009.
"Harold Pinter Tribute". Granta. Granta, 25 Dec. 2008. Web. 2 Jan. 2009.
"In Memoriam: Harold Pinter". The Pinter Centre for the Study of Performance and Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London. Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2008. Web. 23 Apr. 2009.
Jamieson, Alastair. "Nobel Laureate Playwright Harold Pinter Dies". Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group, 26 Dec. 2008. Web. 5 May 2009. ["Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize-winning playwright and political activist, has died of liver cancer aged 78." (Includes links to several other related articles.)]
Kamm, Oliver. "Harold Pinter: An Impassioned Artist Who Lost Direction on the Political Stage".
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McCallum, John. "Companies Recall Good Ghost of Pinter".
Miller, Lionel. "The Lost Librarian." The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School 3.2 (Mar. 2009): 5. Print.
Morgan, Clare. "Festival Joins Forces for Free Pinter Tribute". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Digital, 28 Jan.2009. Web, 28 Jan. 2009.
"MP Backs Pinter Tribute Campaign". Hackney Gazette, News. Archant, 27 Jan. 2009. Web. 28 Jan. 2009.
"Obituary: Harold Pinter". BBC News. BBC, 25 Dec. 2008. Web. 25 Dec. 2008.
"Pinter Ends It All with a Double Plot".
Sherwin, Adam. "Portrait of Harold Pinter Playing Cricket To Be Sold at Auction".
Smith, Alastair. "Pinter to be Honoured Before Final Performance of No Man's Land". Stage, News. Stage Newspaper Group Ltd, 2 Jan. 2009. Web. 14 Mar. 2009.
Soros, Simon. "Grandpa".
–––. "Grandpa." The Pinter Review: Nobel Prize/Europe Theatre Prize Volume: 2005 – 2008. Ed. Francis Gillen with Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2008. 1. Print.
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Taylor-Batty, Mark, comp. "In Memoriam: Harold Pinter". Harold Pinter Society Webpages. The Harold Pinter Society, 1 Jan. 2009. Web. 1 Jan. 2009. ["Harold Pinter - playwright, poet, actor, director, political activist - died on 24 December 2008, aged 78 ... Here are a few of the obituaries and commentaries released by the international press and online theatre community." (Contains "Key links" and a hyperlinked "Full list" periodically being updated.)]
Thomas, Edward. "Theatre Talk with Edward Thomas: The End of the Pauses." The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School 3.2 (Mar. 2009): 9. Print. [Rpt. by permission of Theatre Monthly Encore.]
"Times Obituary: Harold Pinter".
Ulaby, Neda. "Remembrances: Remembering Influential Playwright Harold Pinter". Day to Day.
Wainwright, Hilary. "In Words and Silences". Red Pepper. Red Pepper magazine, Dec. 2008. Web. 3 Jan. 2009. ["Hilary Wainwright reflects on Harold Pinter and Red Pepper."]
Walker, Peter, David Smith, and Haroon Siddique. "Harold Pinter: Tributes Pour In After Death of Dramatist Aged 78".
Watkins, G. L. "Harold Pinter, CH, CBE. 10th October 1930 – 24th December 2008 (Hackney Downs School, 1942–1948, Hammond House, Prefect)," "Memorable Phrasings," and "Elsewhere in the World." The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School 3.2 (Mar. 2009): 4; 8; 11. Print.
–––, ed. The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School 3.2 (Mar. 2009): 1–36. Print. [This issue contains several memorial tributes to Pinter and to other departed former classmates; on Pinter, see Baker, Miller, Supple, Taylor, Thomas, Yeates, and Watkins.]
"West End Pays Tribute to Pinter". BBC News. BBC, 27 Dec. 2008. Web. 1 Jan. 2009. [Includes video clip.]
Westwood, Matthew. "Blanchett Stars in Free Play".
Winer, Linda. "Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter Dead at 78". Newsday. Newsday Inc., 25 Dec. 2008. Web. 10 Jan. 2009.
Yeates, Binnie (Yankovitch). "Harold Pinter – Romeo – 1948". Rpt. in "Romeo," by Jamie Andrews. Harold Pinter Archive Blog. British Library, 20 Apr. 2009. Web. 25 Apr. 2009. Rpt. from "Harold Pinter Romeo and Juliet – 1948." The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School 3.2 (Mar. 2009): 8. Print. [Reproduced with permission of the author.]
External links
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- HaroldPinter.org – The Official Website for the International Playwright Harold Pinter (home and index page).
- "Harold Pinter" at Books and Writing with Ramona Koval. Broadcast on Radio National on 15 Sept. 2002. (Interview conducted at the Edinburgh International Book Festivalon 25 Aug. 2002.)
- Harold Pinter at the BFI's Screenonline. [Brief biography, critical account, and selected bibliography, compiled by Roger Phillip Mellor, in the Encyclopedia of British Film. Includes hyperlinked filmography ["Film & TV Credits"], with featured works.]
- "Harold Pinter" at Faber and Faber(Pinter's publisher in the UK). [Includes hyperlinked list of Pinter's works published by Faber and Faber.]
- "Harold Pinter" at Grove Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. (Pinter's U.S. publisher). [Includes hyperlinked list of Pinter's works published by Grove Press.]
- "Harold Pinter" at Guardian.co.uk["The best of the Guardian's coverage, including tributes, reviews and articles from the archive." Hyperlinked content; periodically updated.]
- Harold Pinter at the Internet Broadway Database.
- Harold Pinter at IMDb.
- "Harold Pinter" at the Stop the War Coalition. (Index of search results.)
- "Harold Pinter" in Books and Writers. [Biography and critical account.] [See Authors' Calendar, which Featured Nobel Prize in Literature winner for 2005.]
- "Harold Pinter" in Contemporary Writers. [Biography and critical account by Michael Billington for British Council: Arts.]
- "Harold Pinter" in the Literary Encyclopedia. [Biography and critical account, by Andrew Wyllie, University of the West of England.]
- "Harold Pinter" in The Artists Network of Refuse & Resist!. (17 pages.) [A selection of writings by and commentary about Pinter; also reprints Pinter's 2002 Turin speech and his 2005 Nobel Lecture: "Art, Truth & Politics".]
- "Harold Pinter" in "Times Topics" of The New York Times. [Index of hyperlinked collected news articles, reviews, commentaries, and photographs published in the newspaper; featured links to media clips and additional external resources.]
- Harold Pinter in ZSpace. [Articles by Pinter from 1 Feb. 1997 through 30 Mar. 2007.]
- "Harold Pinter" on The Mark Shenton Show, Trafalgar). Director and actor Harry Burtontalks about his experiences with Pinter, and host Mark Shenton discusses upcoming Pinter productions".]
- Harold Pinter Archive Blog: British Library Curators on Cataloguing the Pinter Archive. Official blog. Developed by BL Cataloguer Kate O'Brien, primary contributor. [See "Pinter Archive" below.]
- "Harold Pinter - Interview (MP3, 47mins, 19MB)". British Library Online Gallery: What's On. British Library, 8 Sept. 2008. Downloadable MP3 podcast. ["Harold Pinter shares his memories of postwar British theatre with actor and director Harry Burton." Introduced by Jamie Andrews [Head, Modern Literary Manuscripts, British Library] and recorded at the Golden Generation conference at the British Library, held on 8–9 Sept. 2008.]
- Harold Pinter memorial and photographs at Findagrave.com.
- Harold Pinter portrait by artist Joe Hill – At joe-hill-art.com. [Offered at auction, with winner and proceeds donated to charity to be announced at match between the Gaieties and the Lord's Taverners at Lord's Cricket Ground on 27 Sept. 2009.]
- Harold Pinter Society (HPS) – An Allied Organization of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and an Associated Organization of the Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA). The Harold Pinter Society is "dedicated to studying, celebrating, and appraising the works of this prolific and frequently enigmatic writer." The Pinter Review (1987– ) is published for the HPS by the University of Tampa Press. (Periodically updated.)]
- "Harold Pinter Tribute" – Announcement of A Tribute to Harold Pinter, presented by the Sydney Festival, Gate Theatre, and Sydney Theatre Company, on 1 Feb. 2009 (Sydney Festival 2009: January 10–31: "Sydney Festival News").
- "Nobel Lecture: Art, Truth & Politics", by Harold Pinter, at nobelprize.org – Official Website of the Nobel Prize. [Hyperlinked video and "The Lecture in Text Format" in the original English and in French, German, and Swedish translations.]
- "Pinter Archive Saved for the Nation" – Press release of 11 Dec. 2007 concerning the acquisition of The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library(BL). [Hyperlinked BL announcement page. See "Harold Pinter Archive Blog" above.]
- Pinter at the BBC (BBC Four), 26 Oct. 2002 – 9 Nov. 2002; posted 7 Feb. 2003. [Includes a "Pinter Timeline", a "Q&A" with Pinter's official biographer Michael Billington, and hyperlinked RealMedia video clips.]
- Pinter Tribute: Essay: Pinter's Voices. BBC Radio 3. Five episodes, each one broadcast daily from 16–20 Feb. 2009. [1: Gate Theatre director Michael Colgan; 2: Critic Michael Billington; 3: Writer Lisa Appignanesi; 4: Film historian Ian Christie; and 5: Actor and director Harry Burton. (Preceded on 15 Feb. 2009 by Harold Pinter Double Bill: Moonlight and Voices.) Streaming audio accessible for 7 days after broadcast; Burton's essay "Harold Pinter & Cricket" linked on his Matahari Films website accessible via "Win an Exclusive Harold Pinter Portrait" (in "News" at Lord's Taverners), hyperlinked in "Upcoming Events for the Year 2009" at HaroldPinter.org.]
- "Pinter on War". Red Pepper Feb. 2004. (Archived version.) [Texts of poems "Weather Forecast", "Democracy", "The Bombs", and "God Bless America".]
- Premio Europa Per Il Theatro – X Edizione (10th Edition of the Europe Theatre Prize, Turin, Italy, 8–12 Mar. 2006). [Hyperlinked "program", "jury", "events" (including international symposium Pinter: Passion, Poetry, Politics), and "letter of motivation" of the award to Harold Pinter; site includes Italian, English, French, and German language options.]
- "Reputations: Harold Pinter" on TheatreVoice. Clip of program recorded on 14 Oct. 2005. [Critical assessment by Michael Billington, Dan Rebellato, Charles Spencer and Ian Smith"; hosted by Aleks Sierz.]
- "Tribute to Harold Pinter" – Fifth Anniversary (2009) PEN American Centerfor non-profit editorial use only")
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Bibliography for Harold Pinter is a list of selected published primary works, productions, secondary sources, and other resources related to
Bibliographical resources
Baker, William, and John C. Ross, comps. Harold Pinter: A Bibliographical History. London: The
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(help)Spring – Summer 2007 Catalogue (9.25 MB). Oak Knoll Press, 2007. Web"Biobibliographical Notes" and "Bibliography" for "Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize in Literature 2005." In "Bio-bibliography". By The Swedish Academy. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005. nobelprize.org. The Swedish Academy and The Nobel Foundation, Oct. 2005. Web. 6 Jan. 2009. (English HTML version.) [Additional PDF versions accessible in English, French, German, and Swedish via hyperlinks.]
Harold Pinter: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (1960–1980).
"Links: Libraries and Academia" and "Publications": "Works By" and "Works About" Pinter. haroldpinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2000–[2009]. Web. 18 Apr. 2009.
Merritt, Susan Hollis, comp. "Harold Pinter Bibliography". SusanHollisMerritt.org. Susan Hollis Merritt, 2009. Web. 18 Apr. 2009. (Webpage pertaining to the "Harold Pinter Bibliography" published in The Pinter Review. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1987– .)
–––. "Harold Pinter Bibliography: 2000–2002." The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 2003 and 2004. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2004. 242–300. Print.
–––. "Harold Pinter Bibliography: 2002–2004 With a Special Supplement on the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, October 2005 – May 2006." The Pinter Review: Nobel Prize/Europe Theatre Prize Volume: 2005 – 2008. Ed. Francis Gillen with Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2008. 261–343. Print.
The Pinter Review. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1987– ). Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2000–[2008]. Web. 3 Jan. 2009. [Table of contents of past issues, retyped on index Webpage; occasional typographical variations.]
The Pinter Review: Nobel Prize/Europe Theatre Prize Volume: 2005 – 2008. Ed. Francis Gillen with Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2008.
The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library
–––. "Loan No. 110 A/1-74: Harold Pinter Archive". British Library Manuscripts (Loan) Catalogue.
–––. "Pinter Archive Saved for the Nation: British Library Acquires Extensive Collection of UK's Greatest Living Playwright." The British Library: The World's Knowledge. British Library, 11 Dec. 2007. Web. 11 Dec. 2007. [British Library press release.]
Brown, Mark. "British Library's £1.1m Saves Pinter's Papers for Nation".
Gale, Steven H., and Christopher Hudgins. "The Harold Pinter Archives II: A Description of the Filmscript Materials in the Archive in the British Library." The Pinter Review: Annual Essays 1995 and 1996. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1997. 101-42. Print. [Follows up article by Merritt listed below; does not include an updated version of Merritt's "Appendix"; focuses on manuscript materials relating to Pinter's screenplays.]
Howard, Jennifer. "British Library Acquires Pinter Papers". Chronicle of Higher Education, News Blog. The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc., 12 Dec. 2007. Web. 16 Dec. 2007.
Merritt, Susan Hollis. "The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library." The Pinter Review: Annual Essays 1994. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1994. 14-53. Print. [The first article describing in detail the contents of this archive; it includes: "Appendix: List of Boxes Presently in the Archive: Loan 110 A/1-(64): Harold Pinter Archive," which provides, with emendations and corrections, the original BL "finding list" through Box 64; in 1994 the "finding list" covered only through Box 61; this Appendix adds Boxes 62, 63, & 64, all pertaining to Pinter's screenplay adapting The Handmaid's Tale (a novel by Margaret Atwood) for the 1990 film The Handmaid's Tale. See British Library, "Loan No. 110 A/1-74: Harold Pinter Archive" and the follow-up article by Gale and Hudgins, both listed above.]
O'Brien, Kate (BL Cataloguer). "When Do We Get to See the Stuff?!" Harold Pinter Archive Blog: British Library Curators on Cataloguing the Pinter Archive. British Library, 29 Sept. 2008. Web. 3 Jan. 2009.
Works
"Apart From That". Areté 20 (Spring/Summer 2006): 5–8. Print.
Art, Truth and Politics: The Nobel Lecture. Presented on video in Stockholm, Sweden. 7 Dec. 2005.
"Art, Truth and Politics: The Nobel Lecture".
The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming, Landscape, Old Timesand Celebration. In The Essential Pinter. New York:
"Campaigning Against Torture: Arthur Miller's Socks" (1985). ("Written as a tribute to Arthur Miller, on the occasion of his 80th birthday".) HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter, 3 July 2006. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. Rpt. in Various Voices 56-57.
–––. The Caretaker and The Dumb Waiter: Two Plays by Harold Pinter. 1960. New York:
Celebration and The Room. London:
Death etc. New York:
The Dwarfs. New York:
The Essential Pinter: Selections from the Work of Harold Pinter. New York:
The Hothouse: A Play by Harold Pinter. New York:
Four Plays: The Birthday Party; No Man's Land; Mountain Language; Celebration. London:
Moonlight. New York:
One for the Road. New York:
Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2005. Rev. ed. 1998. London:
Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948–2008. 3rd ed. 1998, 2005. London:
"Voices: Text by Harold Pinter and Music by James Clarke". Through the Night. BBC Radio 3, Speech and Drama, 10 Oct. 2005, 9:30-10:15 p.m. (LT). Web. 10 Oct. 2005 [live]. Repeated on 30 Dec. 2006. (RealPlayer audio no longer accessible.) "BBC Press Office: Programme Information Network Radio Week 1". BBC Press Office. BBC, 10 Oct. 2005. Web. 3 Jan. 2009. (Re-broadcast with Moonlight, as part of Harold Pinter Double Bill, on 15 Feb. 2009, as listed below in #Multimedia resources.)
War. London:
Additional essays, letters, and speeches
"The American administration is a bloodthirsty wild animal". Telegraph.co.uk. Telegraph Media Group, 11 Dec. 2002. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. [A version of "Harold Pinter Gives Honorary Doctorate Speech at Turin University - 27th November 2002" (see below).]
"Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Degree Speech April 18th 2000". HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2000–[2008]. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
"Blowing Up the Media: Index on Censorship, May 1992." Print. Rpt. in Various Voices 201–5. Print.
"Caribbean Cold War". Red Pepper May 1996. Redpepper.org. Red Pepper magazine, May 1996. Web. 3 Oct. 2007. (Rpt. in Guardian 4 Dec. 1996. Also rpt. in Pinter, Various Voices 209–12. Print.)
"Degree Speech to the University of Florence 10th September 2001". HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2002. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. Rpt. as "University of Florence Speech: On the Occasion of the Award of an Honorary Degree, 10 September 2001". Various Voices (Faber rev. ed., 2005) 238–40.
"Eroding the Language of Freedom: Sanity, March 1989." Rpt. in HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2000–[2008]. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. Rpt. in Various Voices (Faber rev. ed., 2005) 188–89. Print.
Foreword. Degraded Capability: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis. Ed.
"The Gulf War and the Continuing Bombing of Iraq". HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2000–[2008]. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. [Includes hyperlinked essays and speeches.] (See ""House of Commons Speech: 15 October 2002" below.)
"Harold Pinter Gives Honorary Doctorate Speech at Turin University - 27th November 2002". Artists Network of Refuse & Resist!, 12 Dec. 2005. Web. 15 Mar. 2009. Rpt. as "University of Turin Speech: On the Occasion of the Award of an Honorary Degree 27 November 2002." Various Voices 241–43. Also rpt. in War [7–9; n. pag.]. Print. (Another version was published as "The American administration is a bloodthirsty wild animal" [without internal quotation marks]; see above.)
"House of Commons Speech – 15 October 2002". HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2002. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. Rpt. in Death etc. 71–73. Print.
"House of Commons Speech - Tuesday 21st January 2003". HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2003. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. Rpt. in Various Voices (Faber rev. ed., 2005) 244. Print.
"Introduction by Harold Pinter, Nobel Laureate." 7–9 in 'Fortune's Fool': The Man Who Taught Harold Pinter: A Life of Joe Brearley. Ed. G. L. Watkins. Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Eng., UK: TwigBooks in association with The Clove Club, 2008.
"Iraq Debate: Imperial War Museum, 23 September 2004". HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2004. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. Rpt. in Various Voices 24–46. Print.
"It Never Happened". Z Magazine.
"Letter from Pinter, Saramago, Chomsky and Berger". Scoop (New Zealand). Scoop.co.nz Independent News, 25 July 2006. Web. 15 Mar. 2009. ["This letter, signed by Harold Pinter, José Saramago, Noam Chomsky and John Berger, has been forwarded to major newspapers."]
"Oh, Superman: Broadcast for Opinion, Channel 4, 31 May 1990." Rpt. in Various Voices 190–200. Print. Excerpt qtd. in "Politics" section of haroldpinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2007. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
"An Open Letter to the Prime Minister: Guardian 17 February 1998." Hyperlinked in "The Gulf War and the Continuing Bombing of Iraq". HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2000–[2008]; (original posting) Oct. 2007. Web. 14 Mar. 2009. Rpt. in Various Voices (Faber rev. ed., 2005) 235–37. Print.
"Speech at Hyde Park (F)ebruary 15th 2003". HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2000–[2008]. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
"The US and El Salvador: Observer, 28 March 1993." Rpt. in Various Voices 206–208. Print.
"The US Elephant Must Be Stopped." Guardian, 5 December 1987". Rpt. in Various Voices (Faber rev. ed., 2005) 185–87. Print.
"The War Against Reason".
"Why George Bush Is Insane" (2002). Rpt. in ZNet.
"Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry: Acceptance Speech, 18 March 2005". HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2005. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. Rpt. in Death etc. 1–2 and Various Voices (Faber rev. ed., 2005) 247–48. Print.
Poems
"Death May Be Ageing" (Apr. 2005). Rpt. in Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948–2005 (2005 ed.) 180. Print. Also rpt. in "Poetry by Harold Pinter" in Another America (listed below).
"Harold Pinter (b. 1930)". Poetryarchive.org. The Poetry Archive, n.d. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. [Biography, critical account, and streaming audio of a special recording of Pinter reading four of his poems: "Cancer Cells", "It is Here", "Later", and "Episode"; recorded 16 Dec. 2002, The Audio Workshop, London; prod. Richard Carrington.]
"Harold Pinter's Poetry". HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2000–[2008]. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. [Includes "Harold Pinter's Most Recent Poetry" (periodically updated).]
"Harold Pinter's War", by M. C. Gardner. Another America. Donald Freed, May 2007. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. [Includes texts and related review of War.] (See "Poetry by Harold Pinter", in Another America, listed below.)
"Laughter." In "Review: Laughter: The Saturday Poem: By Harold Pinter." Guardian 25 Nov. 2006, Guardian Review Pages: 23. Print.
"Literature of the Gaieties". haroldpinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2000–[2008]. Web. 1 Nov. 2007.
"Poetry by Harold Pinter". Another America. Donald Freed, May 2007. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. [Published with permission of Harold Pinter.]
Sections of various printed collections such as Death etc., The Essential Pinter, The Pinter Review, Various Voices, and War. Print.
"The Special Relationship" (Aug. 2004). haroldpinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2004. Web. 31 Oct. 2007. [Featured link accessible from home page.]
"The 'special relationship'." Guardian 9 Sept. 2004, G2: 4. Print.
"The Watcher." Guardian 9 Apr. 2007: 3. Print.
Interviews
Batty, Mark. "Pinter Views: Pinter on Pinter." 79–153 (chap. 8) in Batty, About Pinter. Print.
Bensky, Lawrence M. "The Art of Theatre No. 3: Harold Pinter". Paris Rev. 10.39 (Fall 1966): 12–37. Print. Excerpt from archived contents of journal; hyperlinked ""The Art of Theatre No. 3: Harold Pinter"" (PDF). (280 KB). Paris Review. Paris Review Foundation, Inc., 2004. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. [A frequently-cited source of Pinter's early views.]
–––, comp. " 'They said you've a call from the Nobel committee. I said, why?': Harold Pinter in His Own Words".
Bull, Andy. "Playwright Harold Pinter's Last Interview Reveals His Childhood Love of Cricket and Why It Is Better Than Sex".
Burton, Harry. "Harold Pinter - Interview (MP3, 47mins, 19MB)" (Golden Generation conference podcast). British Library Online Gallery: What's On. British Library, 8 Sept. 2008. Web. 14 Mar. 2009. Downloadable MP3 podcast. ["Harold Pinter shares his memories of postwar British theatre with actor and director Harry Burton." Introduced by Jamie Andrews (Head, Modern Literary Manuscripts, British Library) and recorded at the Golden Generation conference, held at the British Library on 8–9 Sept. 2008.]
Hern, Nicholas, and Harold Pinter. "A Play and Its Politics: A Conversation between Harold Pinter and Nicholas Hern." February 1985. 5–23 in Pinter, One for the Road. Print.
Johnson, B. S. "Evacuees" (1968). The Pinter Review: Annual Essays 1994. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1994. 8-13. Print.
Jones, Rebecca, and
Koval, Ramona. "Harold Pinter". Books and Writing with Ramona Koval.
. Transcript.–––. "Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize-Winning Playwright and Poet, at
Lawson, Mark. "Pinter 'to give up writing plays' ". Inc. "Pinter on Front Row". Broadcast on BBC Radio 4. BBC News, 28 Feb. 2005 (last updated). Web. 11 Nov. 2006 & 2 Oct. 2007. Radio. (RealPlayer audio.)
Lyall, Sarah. "Still Pinteresque".
Riddell, Mary. "The New Statesman Interview: Harold Pinter". New Statesman. New Statesman, 8 Nov. 1999. Web. 6 Jan. 2009. [Includes audio clip.]
. 14 Mar. 2009. [Rebroadcast of "A Conversation with Harold Pinter" (filmed at the Old Vic Theatre and first broadcast on 1 Mar. 2007). Introduced as "An appreciation of English dramatist, actor and theater director Harold Pinter who died on December 24, 2008" ("In memoriam"). (52 mins., 52 secs.; buffered).]–––. "A Conversation with Harold Pinter."
–––. "A Conversation with Harold Pinter" (Filmed at the
Wark, Kirsty. "Harold Pinter on Newsnight Review". BBC News. BBC, 23 June 2006. Web. 6 Jan. 2009. ["Kirsty Wark introduces her interview with Harold Pinter, which aired on Newsnight Review, Friday 23 June, at 11pm on BBC TWO." (See below).]
–––. "Interviews: Nobel Prize Winning Playwright Harold Pinter Talks to Kirsty Wark". Newsnight Review. BBC Two, London, 23 June 2006. Television. BBC News. BBC, 25 June 2006. Web. 6 Jan. 2009. RealPlayer streaming video. (See above.)
Stage productions
"The Birthday Party: 8–24 May 2008". Lyric.
"The Birthday Party – Premiere". haroldpinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2000–[2008].
"The Caretaker – Premiere". Dir. Donald McWhinnie, Arts Theatre Club, Arts Theatre, London, 27 Apr. 1960; transferred to the Duchess Theatre, London, 30 May 1960. haroldpinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2000–[2008]. Web. 4 Oct. 2007. [Production details and excerpts from related reviews.]
The Dumb Waiter (1957). Dir.
"Dumb Waiter Limited Run". 50th anniversary production. Press release. Sonia Friedman Productions, 3 Jan. 2007. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
The Homecoming on Broadway: The Story. Dir.
The Homecoming at the Internet Broadway Database. Web. 7 Jan. 2009.
"The Hothouse". Dir. Ian Rickson. Lyttelton Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London. 11 July – 27 Oct. 2007. National Theatre Online, n.d. Web. 6 Jan. 2009. [Features NT Video.]
Krapp's Last Tape. Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court Theatre, London. 12 Oct.–24 Oct. 2006. Royal Court Theatre, Oct. 2006. Web. 6 Jan. 2009.
No Man's Land. Dir. Rupert Goold. Duke of York's Theatre, London. 27 Sept. 2008 – 3 Jan. 2009. Sonia Friedman Productions, n.d. Web. 7 Jan. 2009.(Transferred from the Gate Theatre, Dublin.)
One For The Road - Premiere" (1984). (A double bill with Victoria Station.) HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2000–[2008]. Web. 6 Jan. 2009. [Production details and excerpts from related reviews.]
"Sheffield Theatres: Harold Pinter: A Celebration". Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield, Eng., Oct. – Nov. 2006. Web. 14 Mar. 2009.
"Victoria Station - Lyric Studio 1984". (A double bill with
Official authorised biography
Other secondary sources
Agencies. "'The foremost representative of British drama': Excerpts from the Swedish Academy's Citation Awarding the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature to British Playwright Harold Pinter."
Allen-Mills, Tony. "This Pinter Guy Could Turn Into a Pain".
Anderson, Porter. "Harold Pinter: Theater's Angry Old Man: At the Prize of Europe, the Playwright Is All Politics." CNN.com. CNN, 17 Mar. 2006. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
Baker, William. Harold Pinter. Writers' Lives Series. London and New York:
Batiukov, Michael. "Belarus 'Free Theatre' Is Under Attack by Militia in Minsk, Belarus". American Chronicle. Ultio, LLC, 22 Aug. 2007. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
Batty, Mark. About Pinter: The Playwright and the Work. London: Faber, 2005.
Begley, Varun. Harold Pinter and the Twilight of Modernism. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2005.
–––. "Krapp's Last Tape: 4 Stars Royal Court, London".
–––. "Passionate Pinter's Devastating Assault On US Foreign Policy: Shades of Beckett As Ailing Playwright Delivers Powerful Nobel Lecture."
–––. "We Are Catching Up With This Man's Creative Talent At Last: The Current Rash of Pinter Revivals Is about Far More Than Guilt or Respect. Both Artistically and Politically, He Was Ahead of the Pack."
Bond, Paul. "Harold Pinter's Artistic Achievement". World Socialist Web Site. World Socialist Web Site, 29 Dec. 2005. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
Brantley, Ben. "Harold Pinter". New York Times, Times Topics . New York Times Company, 2009 (updated periodically). Web. 6 Jan. 2009. [Introd. to hyperlinked Harold Pinter News––New York Times; includes menu of recommended external links.]
–––. "A Master of Menace." (Audio file.) (See "Multimedia resources" listed below.)
–––. "Theater Review: The Homecoming (Cort Theater): You Can Go Home Again, But You'll Pay the Consequences". New York Times 17 Dec. 2007, The Arts: E1. Print. New York Times Company, 17 Dec. 2007. Web. 17 Dec. 2007.
Brown, Mark. "What Is It (War) Good for?" Socialist Review. Socialist Review, Sept. 2003. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. [Book rev. of War, by Harold Pinter.]
"Bush and Blair Slated by Pinter". BBC News. BBC, 7 Dec. 2005. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. (Features related links.)
The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter. Ed. Peter Raby. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.
–––. "Central's 2008 Graduation Ceremony: Honorary Fellowships for Harold Pinter,
–––. "Israel, Lebanon, and Palestine: Tariq Ali, John Berger, Noam Chomsky, Eduardo Galeano, Naomi Klein, Harold Pinter, Arundhati Roy, José Saramago & Howard Zinn" (Updated signatures). chomsky.info . Noam Chomsky, 19 July 2006. Web, 4 Oct. 2007.
Chrisafis, Angelique, and Imogen Tilden. "Pinter Blasts 'Nazi America' and 'deluded idiot' Blair".
Christie, Janet. "Cautionary Tale about a Boy and Girl".
Cohen, Lisa. "J. Barry Lewis on 'Betrayal'", Edge (
Cole, Olivia. "Cut the Pauses ...Says Pinter".
Coppa, Francesca. "The Sacred Joke: Comedy and Politics in Pinter's Early Plays". 44–56 in The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter. Ed. Peter Raby. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001. Print. Cambridge Collections Online. Cambridge University Press, n.d. Web. 4 Jan. 2009. [Extract; registered account required for access to full text.]
Cuba Solidarity Campaign in the UK (CSC). Cuba Solidarity Campaign in the UK, 2009. Web, 24 June 2009. (Official Website updated periodically.) [Site originally entitled Hands Off Cuba! when Pinter first began supporting the CSC and when accessed on 3 Oct. 2007 (see below). Re-titled The Cuba Solidarity Campaign in the UK. According to his official website, not yet fully updated, "Harold Pinter is an active delegate and speaker on behalf of the CSC, especially in its campaign against the US Embargo" ("Political organisations" and causes supported by Pinter as hyperlinked in "Politics" in HaroldPinter.org, 2000–[2009]. Web, 24 June 2009.]
"Death of Vivien Merchant Is Ascribed to Alcoholism". New York Times. New York Times Company, 7 Oct. 1982. Web. 3 Oct. 2007.
"Degree Honour for Playwright Pinter". AOL.co.uk.
Diamond, Elin. Pinter's Comic Play. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 1985. Print.
Dougary, Ginny. "Lady Antonia Fraser's Life Less Ordinary: In a Frank Interview, the Famed Writer Talks about Motherhood, Catholicism, Her Parents and Soulmate
Eden, Richard, and Tim Walker. "Mandrake: A Pinteresque Silence".
Ferguson, Niall. "Personal View: Do the Sums, Then Compare US and Communist Crimes from the Cold War". Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group, 11 Dec. 2005. Web. 9 May 2009.
Filichia, Peter. "McCarter Gives Pinter a Happy 'Birthday Party' ".
Freed, Donald. "The Courage of Harold Pinter". Presentation at Artist and Citizen: 50 Years of Performing Pinter. University of Leeds, 13 Apr. 2007. Another America. Donald Freed, Apr. 2007. Web. 28 May 2007.
French Embassy in the
"French PM Honours Harold Pinter". BBC News. BBC, 18 Jan. 2007. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
Gale, Steven H. Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2003.
–––, ed. The Films of Harold Pinter. Albany: SUNY P, 2001.
Gans, Andrew. "Broadway Homecoming Will Be a Week Later Than Originally Announced". Playbill, News. Playbill, 9 Aug. 2007. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. [Features hyperlink to "Listings/Tickets/Broadway: The Homecoming", Playbill.]
–––. "Esparza to Return to Broadway in The Homecoming; McKean, Too", Playbill, News. Playbill, 24 July 2007. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
–––. "Ian McShane to Have Broadway Homecoming". Playbill, News. Playbill, 14 Nov. 2006. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
Ganz, Arthur R., ed. Pinter: A Collection of Critical Essays. Twentieth Century Views. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
. 19 Jan. 2009.Gardner, M.C. "Harold Pinter's War". Book rev. Another America Journal. Lightning Source, Inc., 2003. Another America. Donald Freed, May 2007. Web. 6 Jan. 2009.
Gordon, Lois, ed. Pinter at 70: A Casebook. Casebooks on Modern Dramatists. 1990. Rev. and enl. ed. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Grimes, Charles. Harold Pinter's Politics: A Silence Beyond Echo. Madison & Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson UP; Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2005.
Gussow, Mel. "Critic's Notebook: On the London Stage, a Feast of Revenge, Menace and Guilt". New York Times Company. New York Times, 31 July 1991. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. (Site registration may be required.)
Hadley, Kathryn. "Forward to Freedom". History Today News, History in the News. History Today Magazine, 15 June 2009. Web. 25 June 2009.
Hands Off Cuba! The Cuba Solidarity Campaign in the UK, n.d. Web. 3 Oct. 2007. [Official website updated periodically; cf. updated website for The Cuba Solidarity Campaign in the UK, listed above.]
"Harold Pinter Added to IFOA Lineup". Press release. International Festival of Authors (IFOA), Toronto, 1 Oct. 2001.
Harold Pinter at the Internet Broadway Database. Web. 3 Oct. 2007.
"Harold Pinter Meets Free Theatre in Leeds". Press release. Belarus Free Theatre. Belarus Free Theatre, 2 May 2007. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. [English version has some typographical errors; also accessible in Belarusian [p??????] and in French [français]. Features photographs reposted from Mark Taylor-Batty's University of Leeds Website for the conference Artist and Citizen: 50 Years of Performing Pinter.]
"Harold Pinter Taken to Hospital". BBC News. BBC, 30 Nov. 2005. Web. 7 May 2009.
Hickling, Alfred. "Being Harold Pinter ***** Workshop, University of Leeds".
Higgins, Charlotte. "Edinburgh Festival: Two-act rant from Sean and Harold".
Hinchliffe, Arnold P. Harold Pinter. The Griffin Authors Ser. New York: St. Martin's P, 1967. Print.
Hitchens, Christopher. "Opinion: The Sinister Mediocrity of Harold Pinter". Wall Street Jour. 17 Oct. 2005, A18. Print. Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones & Company), 17 Oct. 2005. Web. 7 May 2009. [Electronic ed.; printable version "for personal, non-commercial use only."]
Hobson, Harold. "The Screw Turns Again". Sunday Times 25 May 1958: 11. Print. (Cited in Merritt, Pinter in Play.) Rpt. in The Birthday Party. HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2000–[2008]. Web. 3 Oct. 2007. (See also "Stage productions" listed above.)
Hodgson, Martin. "British Jews Break Away from 'pro-Israeli' Board of Deputies".
Honigsbaum, Mark. "Publisher to Stand In for Pinter at Nobel Ceremony".
Horwitz, Simi. "James Frain Joins 'The Homecoming'". Backstage.com.
Howard, Jennifer. "Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Harold Pinter, British Playwright Widely Studied in Academe". Chronicle of Higher Education. Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 Oct. 2006. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
Hudgins, Christopher C. "Harold Pinter's Lolita: 'My Sin, My Soul'." 123–46 in Gale, The Films of Harold Pinter.
–––. "The Nobel Prize Festivities: Stockholm, December 2005. A Joyous Report." The Pinter Review: Nobel Prize/Europe Theatre Prize Volume: 2005 – 2008. Ed. Francis Gillen with Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2008. 43–50. Print.
–––. "Three Unpublished Harold Pinter Filmscripts: The Handmaid's Tale, The Remains of the Day, Lolita." The Pinter Review: Nobel Prize/Europe Theatre Prize Volume: 2005 – 2008. Ed. Francis Gillen with Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2008. 132–39. Print.
Jacobson, Aileen. "Pinter's Pauses: Even the Playwright Thinks They've Led to Over-pausing. But Actors in Two New Productions Find Them Exciting." Newsday, 5 Nov. 1989. Print.
Jones, Edward T. "On The Remains of the Day: Harold Pinter Remaindered." 99–107 in Gale, The Films of Harold Pinter.
Jones, David. "Travels with Harold". Front & Center Online ("The Online Version of Roundabout Theatre Company's Subscriber Magazine"). Roundabout Theatre Company, Fall 2003. Web. 9 Oct. 2007. (3 pages.) ["David Jones' Staging of The Caretaker for Roundabout Culminates a 40-Year Career Acting and Directing the Work of Harold Pinter. Here the Director Looks Back."]
Karwowski, Michael. "Harold Pinter––a Political Playwright?"
"Letter of Motivation for the European Theatre Prize". 10th Edition of the Europe Theatre Prize to Harold Pinter ("X Premio Europa per il teatro a Harold Pinter"). premio-europa.org. Europe Theatre Prize, Turin, Italy, 8–12 Mar. 2006. Web. 10 Mar. 2009.
Lyall, Sarah. "Playwright Takes a Prize and a Jab at U.S." New York Times. New York Times Company, 8 Dec. 2006. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. [Correction appended 10 Dec. 2005: "An article on Thursday about the playwright Harold Pinter's criticism of American foreign policy in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for literature described it incompletely. He said that both President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair - and not just Prime Minister Blair - should be tried before the International Criminal Court of Justice for the invasion of Iraq."]
Mbeki, Thabo. "Letter from the President: Hail the Nobel Laureates - Apostles of Human Curiosity!". ANC Today ("Online Voice of the African National Congress") 5.42 (21–27 Oct. 2005). African National Congress, 12 Nov. 2007. Web.
[McDowell, Leslie.] "Book Festival Reviews: Pinter at 75: The Anger Still Burns: Harold Pinter". The Scotsman 26 Aug. 2006: 5. Print. The Scotsman Publications Limited (Johnston Press Plc), (updated) 27 Aug. 2006. Web. 6 Jan. 2009.
Merritt, Susan Hollis. "(Anti-)Global Pinter." The Pinter Review: Nobel Prize/Europe Theatre Prize Volume: 2005 – 2008. Ed. Francis Gillen with Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2008. 140–67. Print.
–––. "Betrayal in Denver." The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 2003 and 2004. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2004. 187–201. Print.
–––. "Europe Theatre Prize Celebration -- Turin, Italy." Harold Pinter Society Newsletter, Fall 2006. Web. (Downloadable electronic document sent to members.)
–––. "Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes: Political/Personal Echoes of the Holocaust." The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 1999 and 2000. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2000. 73–84. Print.
–––. Pinter in Play: Critical Strategies and the Plays of Harold Pinter. 1990. Durham and London: Duke UP, 1995.
–––. "Pinter Playing Pinter: The Hothouse." The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 1995–1996. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1997. 73–84. Print.
–––. "Talking about Pinter." (On the Lincoln Center Festival 2001: Harold Pinter Festival Symposia.) The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 2001 and 2002. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2002. 144–67. Print.
Moss, Stephen. "The Guardian Profile: Harold Pinter: Under the Volcano".
"The Nobel Prize for Literature 2005: Harold Pinter".
"Palestinian Nation Under Threat".
Parini, Jay. "Theater: Pinter's Plays, Pinter's Politics". Chronicle of Higher Education, Chronicle Rev. Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 Nov. 2005. World Wide Web. 2 Oct. 2007. (3 pages.)
"People". Time . Time Inc., 11 Aug. 1975. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. [Archived in the Time Archive: 1923 to the Present.] (Page 1 of 2 pages.)
"Pinter Honoured for a Lifetime's Contribution to the Arts". University of Leeds press release. University of Leeds, 13 Apr. 2007. Web. 15 Apr. 2007.
"Pinter Wins Nobel Literary Prize". BBC News . BBC, 13 Oct. 2005. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
"Protesters Will Defy Ban on Anti-Bush Demo on Sunday 15 June". Socialist Worker Online (UK). Socialist Worker, 14 June 2008. Web. 12 June 2008.
Quigley, Austin E. "Pinter, Politics and Postmodernmism (I)." 7–27 in The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter. Print.
Reddy, E. S. "Free Mandela: An Account of the Campaign to Free Nelson Mandela and All Other Political Prisoners in South Africa." African National Congress (ANC): Documents: History of Campaigns. African National Congress, July 1988. Web. 5 Jan. 2009.
Riddell, Mary. "Comment: Prophet without Honour: Harold Pinter Can Be Cantankerous and Puerile. But He Is a Worthy Nobel Prizewinner."
Robertson, Campbell. "In Search of Her Inner Kangaroo Suit: Eve Best Storms Broadway and New York."
Robinson, David. "Books: Doyle Returns to an Old Favourite in New Work; . . . Harold Pinter". Scotsman, Living. Scotsman, 28 Aug. 2006. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
–––. "I'm Written Out, Says Controversial Pinter". Scotsman 26 Aug. 2006: 6. Print. Scotsman, 26 Aug. 2006. Web. 26 Aug. 2006.
Sheffield Theatres. "Latest News: August 2006: Sheffield Theatres Presents Pinter: A Celebration". Press release. Sheffield Theatres, 18 Aug. 2006. Web. 7 Jan. 2009.
Shenton, Mark. "Pinter in Turin". Stage Blogs: Shenton's View. Stage Newspaper Limited, 11 Mar. 2006. Web. 15 Mar. 2009.
Smith, Alastair. "Pinter Replaces Mandelson as Central President". Stage. Stage Newspaper Limited, 14 Oct. 2008. Web. 15 Oct. 2008.
Smith, Martin J. "My Diary of Pinter's Homecoming".
Smith, Neil. " 'Political element' to Pinter Prize?" BBC News. BBC, 13 Oct. 2005. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
Smith, Susan Harris. " 'Pinteresque' in the Popular Press." The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 2003 and 2004. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2004. 103–108. Print.
Sofer, Andrew. "The Cheese-Roll under the Cocktail Cabinet: Pinter's Object Lessons." The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 2003 and 2004. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2004. 29–38. Print.
"Special Report: The Nobel Prize for Literature: 2005 Harold Pinter".
Taylor-Batty, Mark. "Fling Open Door and Let Pinter's Pause Be Heard."
Thomson, David T. Pinter: The Player's Playwright. London: Macmillan, 1985. New York: Schocken, 1985.
Toíbín, Colm. "Pinter Takes On Beckett".
Traub, James. "The Way We Live Now: Their Highbrow Hatred of Us". New York Times Mag.. New York Times Company, 30 Oct. 2005. Web. 30 Oct 2005. (Site registration may be required.)
"Travel Advisory: Toronto Festival Honors 14 Leaders in the Arts". New York Times (Archive). New York Times Company, 9 Sept. 2001. Web. 4 Oct. 2007. (Site registration may be required.)
Wardle, Irving. "The Birthday Party."
–––. "Comedy of Menace." Encore 5 (Sept.–Oct. 1958): 28–33. Rpt. in The Encore Reader and New Theatre Voices 86–91. Print.
–––. "Pinter, Harold." 657–58 in The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama. Ed. John Gassner and Edward Quinn. New York: Crowell, 1969. Print.
"There's Music in That Room." Encore 7 (July–Aug. 1960): 32–34. Rpt. in The Encore Reader and New Theatre Voices 129–32. Print.
Wilfred Owen Association Newsletter 4 Aug. 2004. Print.
Multimedia resources
Brantley, Ben. "A Master of Menace" (audio file). Hyperlinked in "Multimedia". In "Harold Pinter". New York Times, Times Topics. New York Times Company, 13 Oct. 2005. Web. 9 Oct. 2007.
BWW News Desk. "Photo Flash: No Man's Land at the Duke of York....Photos by Jeremy Whelehan". BroadwayWorld.com. Broadway World, 10 Nov. 2008. Web. 26 Dec. 2008.
Celebration (2000).
Harold Pinter: Art, Truth & Politics: The Nobel Prize Lecture. © Copyright 2006 Illuminations. All Rights Reserved. Transmission Channel 4, 2005.
"Harold Pinter Slideshow". "Harold Pinter". New York Times, Times Topics. New York Times Company, 13 Oct. 2005. Web. 9 Oct. 2007. [Hyperlinked in "Multimedia".]
"The Hothouse". By Harold Pinter. Dir. Ian Rickson. Lyttelton Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London, 11 July – 27 Oct. 2007. National Theatre Online (Royal National Theatre), n.d. Web. 6 Jan. 2009. [Features NT Video clip of stage prod.]
"Playwright Harold Pinter Dies".
Moonlight and Voices. Harold Pinter Double Bill.
"Press Releases & Press Packs" for Pinter at the BBC. BBC Press Office, 3 Oct. 2002. Web. 2 Oct. 2007.
. 14 Mar. 2009. [Rebroadcast of the interview with Pinter conducted on 1 Mar. 2007, introduced as "An appreciation of English dramatist, actor and theater director Harold Pinter who died on December 24, 2008" ("In memoriam"). (52 mins., 52 secs.; buffered.)]Sleuth at
Working With Pinter. Dir.
Abbott, Diane. "Diane Abbott Calls for Pinter Cinema". DianeAbbott.org.uk. Diane Abbott Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (site funded from the Parliamentary Members Communications Allowance), 16 Jan. 2009. Web. 28 Jan. 2009. Press release.
Adams, Stephen. "Harold Pinter Directs His Own Funeral". Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group, 31 Dec. 2008. Web. 6 Jan. 2009. ["His plays were masterpieces of artistic control. And even at his own funeral Harold Pinter made sure he exerted a director's influence."]
Alderman, Geoffrey. "Editorial: Harold Pinter - A Jewish View". Current Viewpoint. Current viewpoint.com, 27 Mar. 2009. Web. 25 Apr. 2009.
Andrews, Jamie. " 'Tender the dead, as you yourself would be tendered...' ". Harold Pinter Archive Blog: British Library Curators on Cataloguing the Pinter Archive. British Library, 6 Jan. 2009. Web. 6 Jan. 2009.
Baker, Terry. "Harold Pinter and the Sports Field." The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School 3.2 (Mar. 2009): 10. Print.
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British Library. "Harold Pinter (1930–2008)". Harold Pinter Archive Blog: British Library Curators on Cataloguing the Pinter Archive. British Library, 29 Dec. 2008. Web. 2 Jan. 2009.
Brooks, Melvyn. "A Memory of Harold Pinter." The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School 3.2 (Mar. 2009): 14. Print.
Cavendish, Dominic. "Harold Pinter: How the Theatre World Saw Him". Telegraph, Blogs. Telegraph Media Group, 26 Dec. 2008. Web. 5 May 2009. (Reprints an article that Cavendish "compiled for the Telegraph shortly after Pinter turned 70 – back in Ocober 2000 – on the eve of the 40th anniversary reval of 'The Caretaker', the play which catapulted him to fame and fortune."]
Daily Mail Reporter. "Breaking News: Nobel Prize-winning Playwright Harold Pinter Dies Aged 78".
Dodds, Paisley (Associated Press). "Nobel-winning Playwright Harold Pinter Dies at 78". ABC News. American Broadcasting Company, 25 Dec. 2008. Web. 14 Mar. 2009.
–––. " 'You want to free the world from oppression?' ".
Driscoll, Margarette. "Yo, Grandpa Pinter, Big Respect".
Eden, Richard. "Harold Pinter Faces Opposition to Memorial in Poet's Corner". Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group, 3 Jan. 2009. Web. 3 Jan. 2009.
Edgar, David. "Pinter's Weasels".
"Editorial: Harold Pinter: Breaking the Rules".
Edwardes, Jane. "Time Out's Tribute to Harold Pinter". Time Out London, Theatre. Time Out Group Ltd., 31 Dec. 2008. Web. 10 May 2009.
Fenton, Anna, and Lucy Jackson. "Harold Pinter: A Look Back". Journal. The Edinburgh Journal Limited, 11 Jan. 2009. Web. 12 Jan. 2009.
"Friends Bid Pinter Farewell". BBC News. BBC, 1 Jan. 2009. Web. 1 Jan. 2009.
Greenhill, Sam. "Theatreland in Mourning As Nobel Prize-winning Playwright Harold Pinter Dies Aged 78".
Gussow, Mel, and Ben Brantley."Harold Pinter, Playwright of the Pause, Dies at 78". New York Times. New York Times Company, 25 Dec. 2008, Theater. Web. 26 Dec. 2008. [Web version of article listed below.]
–––. "Harold Pinter, Whose Silences Redefined Drama, Dies at 78." New York Times 26 Dec. 2008, national ed., sec. A: 1, A22–23. Print. [Cites "Online: A Pinter Appraisal: An audio evaluation by Ben Brantley, reviews of Mr. Pinter's plays and more". Print version of article listed above.]
"Harold Pinter". Economist, People: Obituary. The Economist Group, 30 Dec. 2008. Web. 15 Jan. 2009. ["Harold Pinter, playwright and polemicist, died on December 24, aged 78."]
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"Harold Pinter 1930 – 2008". National Theatre, Theatre News. National Theatre, 29 Dec. 2008. Web. 5 May 2009.
"Harold Pinter 1930–2008: Great Playwright, Nobel Laureate – and TLS Cricketer".
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"In Memoriam: Harold Pinter". The Pinter Centre for the Study of Performance and Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London. Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2008. Web. 23 Apr. 2009.
Jamieson, Alastair. "Nobel Laureate Playwright Harold Pinter Dies". Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group, 26 Dec. 2008. Web. 5 May 2009. ["Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize-winning playwright and political activist, has died of liver cancer aged 78." (Includes links to several other related articles.)]
Kamm, Oliver. "Harold Pinter: An Impassioned Artist Who Lost Direction on the Political Stage".
Lafferty, Julia. "Pinter – A Man of Principle". Hackney Gazette, Letters. Archant, 7 Jan. 2009. Web. 28 Jan. 2009.
Marowitz, Charles. "Harold Pinter: 1930 – 2008". Swans, Commentary. Swans, 29 Dec. 2008 – 1 Jan. 2009. Web. 13 Jan. 2009.
McCallum, John. "Companies Recall Good Ghost of Pinter".
Miller, Lionel. "The Lost Librarian." The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School 3.2 (Mar. 2009): 5. Print.
Morgan, Clare. "Festival Joins Forces for Free Pinter Tribute". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Digital, 28 Jan.2009. Web, 28 Jan. 2009.
"MP Backs Pinter Tribute Campaign". Hackney Gazette, News. Archant, 27 Jan. 2009. Web. 28 Jan. 2009.
"Obituary: Harold Pinter". BBC News. BBC, 25 Dec. 2008. Web. 25 Dec. 2008.
"Pinter Ends It All with a Double Plot".
Sherwin, Adam. "Portrait of Harold Pinter Playing Cricket To Be Sold at Auction".
Smith, Alastair. "Pinter to be Honoured Before Final Performance of No Man's Land". Stage, News. Stage Newspaper Group Ltd, 2 Jan. 2009. Web. 14 Mar. 2009.
Soros, Simon. "Grandpa".
–––. "Grandpa." The Pinter Review: Nobel Prize/Europe Theatre Prize Volume: 2005 – 2008. Ed. Francis Gillen with Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2008. 1. Print.
of TLS ed. Peter Stothard; first posted on 25 Dec. 2008.]Taylor, Jean (Hersh). "Of Harold Pinter and Joseph Brearley." The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School 3.2 (Mar. 2009): 18. Print.
Taylor-Batty, Mark, comp. "In Memoriam: Harold Pinter". Harold Pinter Society Webpages. The Harold Pinter Society, 1 Jan. 2009. Web. 1 Jan. 2009. ["Harold Pinter - playwright, poet, actor, director, political activist - died on 24 December 2008, aged 78 ... Here are a few of the obituaries and commentaries released by the international press and online theatre community." (Contains "Key links" and a hyperlinked "Full list" periodically being updated.)]
Thomas, Edward. "Theatre Talk with Edward Thomas: The End of the Pauses." The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School 3.2 (Mar. 2009): 9. Print. [Rpt. by permission of Theatre Monthly Encore.]
"Times Obituary: Harold Pinter".
Ulaby, Neda. "Remembrances: Remembering Influential Playwright Harold Pinter". Day to Day.
Wainwright, Hilary. "In Words and Silences". Red Pepper. Red Pepper magazine, Dec. 2008. Web. 3 Jan. 2009. ["Hilary Wainwright reflects on Harold Pinter and Red Pepper."]
Walker, Peter, David Smith, and Haroon Siddique. "Harold Pinter: Tributes Pour In After Death of Dramatist Aged 78".
Watkins, G. L. "Harold Pinter, CH, CBE. 10th October 1930 – 24th December 2008 (Hackney Downs School, 1942–1948, Hammond House, Prefect)," "Memorable Phrasings," and "Elsewhere in the World." The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School 3.2 (Mar. 2009): 4; 8; 11. Print.
–––, ed. The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School 3.2 (Mar. 2009): 1–36. Print. [This issue contains several memorial tributes to Pinter and to other departed former classmates; on Pinter, see Baker, Miller, Supple, Taylor, Thomas, Yeates, and Watkins.]
"West End Pays Tribute to Pinter". BBC News. BBC, 27 Dec. 2008. Web. 1 Jan. 2009. [Includes video clip.]
Westwood, Matthew. "Blanchett Stars in Free Play".
Winer, Linda. "Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter Dead at 78". Newsday. Newsday Inc., 25 Dec. 2008. Web. 10 Jan. 2009.
Yeates, Binnie (Yankovitch). "Harold Pinter – Romeo – 1948". Rpt. in "Romeo," by Jamie Andrews. Harold Pinter Archive Blog. British Library, 20 Apr. 2009. Web. 25 Apr. 2009. Rpt. from "Harold Pinter Romeo and Juliet – 1948." The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School 3.2 (Mar. 2009): 8. Print. [Reproduced with permission of the author.]
See also
- Characteristics of Harold Pinter's work
- Works of Harold Pinter
External links
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- HaroldPinter.org – The Official Website for the International Playwright Harold Pinter (Home and index page).
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