The only comprehensive guide to the plays of one of the world's greatest yet most puzzling contemporary dramatists, The Pinter Ethic penetrates the mystery of Harold Pinter's work with compelling and authoritative insights that locate and disclose the primal power of his drama in his characters' powerplay for dominance. Penelope Prentice reveals that Pinter's plays reflect not a vision of postmodern hopelessness in a world threatening to self-destruct, but provoke unguessed choice and action that enlarge the concept of love and link it to justice.
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Penelope Prentice has written a penetrating vision of the Pinter mythos and entered the very human skin of the characters and plays of a profound body of work by one of the most important playwrights of our time.
–Lawrence Sacharow, OBIE Award Winner
A refreshing approach to Pinter's technique.
–Ann C. Hall, Ph.D., President of the Harold Pinter Society, Ohio Dominican College
Penelope prentice sees Pinter clearly and she sees him whole. Her book is an important contribution to Pinter studies.
–Michael Billington
distinctive for its comprehensive attention to Pinter's work and its compelling argument for seeing in Pinter a positive vision of love and justice.
–Choice
an important book [that] is likely to remain so for years...sets a standard of excellence against which all of the others will be measured.
–Cithara
–Lawrence Sacharow, OBIE Award Winner
A refreshing approach to Pinter's technique.
–Ann C. Hall, Ph.D., President of the Harold Pinter Society, Ohio Dominican College
Penelope prentice sees Pinter clearly and she sees him whole. Her book is an important contribution to Pinter studies.
–Michael Billington
distinctive for its comprehensive attention to Pinter's work and its compelling argument for seeing in Pinter a positive vision of love and justice.
–Choice
an important book [that] is likely to remain so for years...sets a standard of excellence against which all of the others will be measured.
–Cithara
About the Author
Penelope Prentice is Professor of English at D'Youville College. She is an award-winning poet and playwright whose works include Thriller, Michael Tyro, and How to Seduce Your Husband.
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What Yeats, Pound, and Eliot did for poetry in the early twentieth century, Harold Pinter later did for drama. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
subservient conflict, world clean for democracy, petty forger, subservient characters, ellipses mine, mountain language, recent torture, destructive vision, light the kettle, dreaming child, work dramatizes, slight ache, revue sketches, dumb waiter, most recent plays, private level, comic wit, moral poet, revised vision, audience sympathy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Homecoming, Harold Pinter, Party Time, The Pinter Ethic, The Hothouse, The New World Order, Night Out, Family Voices, The Comfort of Strangers, The Dreaming Child, The Pumpkin Eater, Miss Piffs, The Servant, Victoria Station, Robert Newton, Dame Melissa, Lady Withers, Recherche du Temps Perdu, Request Stop, Crystal Palace, Elderly Woman, Joseph Losey, Nazi Holocaust, Peter Wood, The Heat of the Day New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
What Yeats, Pound, and Eliot did for poetry in the early twentieth century, Harold Pinter later did for drama. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
subservient conflict, world clean for democracy, petty forger, subservient characters, ellipses mine, mountain language, recent torture, destructive vision, light the kettle, dreaming child, work dramatizes, slight ache, revue sketches, dumb waiter, most recent plays, private level, comic wit, moral poet, revised vision, audience sympathy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Homecoming, Harold Pinter, Party Time, The Pinter Ethic, The Hothouse, The New World Order, Night Out, Family Voices, The Comfort of Strangers, The Dreaming Child, The Pumpkin Eater, Miss Piffs, The Servant, Victoria Station, Robert Newton, Dame Melissa, Lady Withers, Recherche du Temps Perdu, Request Stop, Crystal Palace, Elderly Woman, Joseph Losey, Nazi Holocaust, Peter Wood, The Heat of the Day New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Birthday Party (Pinter plays) by Harold Pinter on 39 pages
- One for the Road by Harold Pinter on 32 pages
- Ashes to Ashes by Harold Pinter on 28 pages
- Dumb Waiter (Acting Edition) by Harold Pinter on 26 pages
- Birthday Party (Lettice) by Mandy Stanley on 18 pages
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- The Pinter Ethic: The Erotic Aesthetic (Studies in Modern Drama) by Penelope Prentice on 4 pages
- Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays (Studies in Modern Drama) by Sandor Goodhart in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays (Studies in Modern Drama) by Sandor Goodhart in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross: Text and Performance (Studies in Modern Drama) by Leslie Kane in Front Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Peter Raby in Back Matter
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