Harold Pinter (eBook, ePUB)

Stages, Networks, Collaborations
Redaktion: Chiasson, Basil; Fallow, Catriona

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This important book offers a thematic collection of critical essays, ideal for undergraduate courses on modern British theatre, on Harold Pinter's theatrical works, alongside new interviews with contemporary theatre practitioners. The life and works of Harold Pinter (1930-2008), a pivotal figure in British theatre, have been widely discussed, debated and celebrated internationally. For over five decades, Pinter's work traversed and redefined various forms and genres, constantly in dialogue with, and often impacting the work of, other writers, artists and activists. Combining a reconsideration of key Pinter scholarship with new contexts, voices and theoretical approaches, this book opens up fresh insights into the author's work, politics, collaborations and his enduring status as one of the world's foremost dramatists. Three sections re-contextualize Pinter as a cultural figure; explore and interrogate his influence on contemporary British playwriting; and offer a series of original interviews with theatre-makers engaging in the staging of Pinter's work today. Reconsiderations of Pinter's relationship to literary and theatrical movements such as Modernism and the Theatre of the Absurd; interrogations of the role of class, elitism and religious and cultural identity sit alongside chapters on Pinter's personal politics, specifically in relation to the Middle East.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350133655
• Artikelnr.: 61241292

Autorenporträt

Dr Catriona Fallow (University of Birmingham) specialises in contemporary British and European playwriting, theatre history, historiography and archival studies. Her work has appeared in Studies in Theatre and Performance and in forthcoming edited collections on the work of Dennis Kelly (Manchester, 2020) and the #MeToo movement (Intellect, 2019). Her current research focuses on Harold Pinter's relationship with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). She has recently appeared on BBC 4's Women's Hour and public panel discussions at the British Film Institute (BFI) addressing the subject of Pinter's female characters. Dr Basil Chiasson (University of Leeds) works on Harold Pinter and contemporary British drama and performance. He has published a full-length monograph, The Late Harold Pinter: Political Dramatist, Poet and Activist (Palgrave, 2017) and contributed chapters to The Theatre of Harold Pinter (Bloomsbury, 2014), Harold Pinter's 'The Dumb Waiter' (Rodopi, 2009), as well as academic journals, such as Modern Drama and The Harold Pinter Review.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Dr Catriona Fallow (University of Birmingham) and Dr Basil Chiasson
(University of Leeds)
Part I: (Re)situating Pinter, Critical Orientations
2. First Chapter: 'Pinter's Modernism: Stealing Prose to Make a Drama'
Dr Basil Chiasson (University of Leeds, UK)
3. Second Chapter: 'The Theatre of the Absurd as Professional Network in
the Early Career of Harold Pinter'
Dr Harry Derbyshire (University of Greenwich, UK)
4. Third Chapter: 'The Elite Pinter and the Pinter Elite'
Dr James Hudson (University of Lincoln, UK)
5. Fourth Chapter: '"Too Much of a Modern?" Pinter's Jewishness'
Professor Eckart Voigts (TU Braunschweig, Germany)
6. Fifth Chapter: 'Harold Pinter, the Peculiar Propagandist: Engaging the
Middle East As a Citizen of the World'
Professor Ibrahim Yerebakan (Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Turkey)
Part II: Pinter as Playwright, Playwrights and Pinter
7. Seventh Chapter: '"An insistence in my mind": Pinter's Writing Ethic'
Steve Waters (University of East Anglia, UK)
8. Eighth Chapter: Pinter and the New Writing Ecology
Dr Catriona Fallow (University of Birmingham, UK)
9. Ninth Chapter: 'Theatre's Dark Matter: Pinter's "Staging" of Systemic
Violence and its Influence in Contemporary British Theatre'
Alex Watson (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
10. Tenth Chapter: 'For What We Are About to Receive: Pinter, Butterworth,
Kelly'
Dr David Pattie (University of Birmingham, UK)
11. Eleventh Chapter: 'The Crimpesque: Pinter's Legacy in the Theatre of
Martin Crimp'
Dr Maria Elena Capitani (University of Parma, Italy)
Part III: Conversations with Collaborators
12. Interviews (approximately 3-5)
13. Bibliography