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The Plays of Harold Pinter
eBook - From Absurdism to Political Drama?
ISBN/EAN: 9783828852044
Umbreit-Nr.: 1780393
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 116 S., 0.45 MB
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 01.11.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- The plays of Harold Pinter, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, have been widely discussed by critics and theatregoers for the last 50 years. While his early plays are regarded as classical pieces of the Theatre of the Absurd, which is said to be apolitical, his later works are recognized as manifestations of political drama. Consequently, critics have suggested a "political awakening" of Pinter, trying to account for the change that occurred in his style of theatre. Taking a closer look at the origins and basic mechanisms of the Theatre of the Absurd and political drama, as well as examining representative pieces of Pinter's earlier (The Dumb Waiter, The Birthday Party) and later work (One for the Road, Mountain Language), Christoph Krüger shows that Pinter's early work can by no means be regarded as apolitical and that Absurdist features indeed are applicable to address political issues.
- Kurztext
- The plays of Harold Pinter, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, have been widely discussed by critics and theatregoers for the last 50 years. While his early plays are regarded as classical pieces of the Theatre of the Absurd, which is said to be apolitical, his later works are recognized as manifestations of political drama. Consequently, critics have suggested a "e;political awakening"e; of Pinter, trying to account for the change that occurred in his style of theatre. Taking a closer look at the origins and basic mechanisms of the Theatre of the Absurd and political drama, as well as examining representative pieces of Pinter's earlier (The Dumb Waiter, The Birthday Party) and later work (One for the Road, Mountain Language), Christoph Kruger shows that Pinter's early work can by no means be regarded as apolitical and that Absurdist features indeed are applicable to address political issues.
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