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Selected Bibliography SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY For the sake of alphabetical continuity, the titles listed here have not been divided into primary and secondary sources. Almansi G. and Henderson S. (1983). Harold Pinter. Methuen; London. Anderson Michael (1976). Anger and Detachment: A Study of Arden, Osborne and Pinter Pitman Publishing: London. Armstrong William A.(ed.) (1963). Experimental Drama. London: G. Bells and Sons. Aronson S.M.L. "Pinter's "Family" and Blood Knowledge" in John Lahr (ed.) (1971). A Casebook on Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, New York: Grove Press. Baker and Tabachnick Stephen E. (1973). Harold Pinter. Oliver & Boyd; Edinburgh Barker Granville H. (1964). On Dramatic Method. Hill and Wang: New York. Becker George J. (1963). Documents of Modem Literary Realism. N. J: Princenton Univ. Press. Bentley Eric (1955). The Playwright as Thinker. Meridian Books: New York. Berkowitz Gerald M. "The Destruction of Identity in Pinter's Early Plays" in Ariel, Vol. 9, No. 1 (January, 1978). Bernhard F. J. "Beyond Realism: The plays of Harold Pinter". In Modern Drama 196 Ill, 2 (September, 1965). Billington Michael (1996). The Life and Work of Harold Pinter Faber & Faber: London Bold Alan (1984). IHarold Pinter: You Never Heard Sucti Silence. Vision and Barnes & Noble: London. Bradby David. "Theories of Modern Drama" in Martin Coyle (ed.) (1991). Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism. Gale Research: Detroit. Brown John Russell (1972). Tfteatre Language: A study of Arden, Osborne, Pinter and Wesker Allen Lane: The Penguin Press: London. Boulton James T. "Harold Pinter: The Caretaker and Other Plays" in Ganz Arthur (ed.) (1972). Harold Pinter: A collection of Critical Essays. Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliff, N. J. Brustein Robert (1964). Ttie Theatre Revolt: An Approach to the Modem Drama. Boston: Atlantic/ Little Brown. Clifford^eech) "Two Romantics: Arnold Wesker and Harold Pinter" in Lewis Allan (ed.) (1971). The Contemporary Theatre. New York: Crown. Corrigan Robert. The Drama of Anton Chekhov' in Travis Bogard and William I Oliver (ed.) (1971). Modern Drama: Essays in Criticism. Oxford: O.U.P. Diamond Elin (1985). Pinter's Comic Play. Associated Univ. Press: U.S.A. Drabble Margaret (ed.) (1990). The Oxford Companion to English Literature. V edition, O.U.P.: New York. Dukore Bernard F. (1982). Harold Pinter The Macmillan Modern Dramatists: 197 Macmillan. Dutton Richard (1986). Modem Tragicomedy and the British Tradition: Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, Albee and Storey. The Harvester Press. Esslin Martin. "Epic Theatre, the Absurd and the Future" in Tulane Drama Review. (Summer, 1964). Esslin Martin. "Godot And His Children: The Theatre of Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter" in Armstrong William A. (ed.) (1963). Experimental Drama. G. Bell and Sons: London. Esslin Matin (1984). Pinter: The Playwright. Methuen Paperback. Methuen, IV Edition: London. Esslin Martin (1977). Pinter: A Study of His Plays. London: Methuen. Evans Gareth Lloyd (1977). The Language of Modem Drama. Rowman and Littlewood: Totowa, N. J. Gale Steven H. (1977). Butter's Going Up: A Critical Analysis of Harold Pinter's Wori<. Duke Univ. Press: Durham. Ganz Arthur (ed.) (1972). Pinter: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice Hall: N.J. Gaskell Ronald. (1972). Drama and Reality: The European Theatre Since Ibsen. Routledge and Kegan Paul: London. Gassner John (1964). Ideas in the Drama. Columbia Univ. Press: New York. Grant Damian (1970). Realism. The critical Idiom 9, Methuen: London. Hall Peter. "Directing the Plays of Harold Pinter" in Raby Peter (ed.) {200^).The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter Cambridge Univ. Press. 198 Hartnoll Phyllis (ed.) (1990). The Concise Oxford Companion to Theatre. Oxford: O.U.P. Hayman Ronald (1979). British Theatre Since 1955. A Reassessment. Oxford: O.U. P. Hayman Ronald (1980). Harold Pinter. Contemporary Playwright's Series. Heinemann: London. Hinchliffe Arnold P. (1967). Harold Pinter. Twayne Publishers: New York. Hirst David L. (1984). Tragicomedy. The Critical Idiom,, Methuen: London. Hollis James R. (1970). Harold Pinter: The Poetics of Silence. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. Hugh Nelson. "The Homecoming: Kith and Kin" in Brown John Russell (ed.) (1960). Modem British Dramatists: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice Hall of India: New Delhi- Kaufman M.W. "Actions that Man Might Play: Pinter's The Birthday Party" in Modern Drama. No. 16 (Sept 1973). King Noel. "Pinter's Progress" in Modern Drama. Vol. XXIII No. 3 (September, 1980). Knowles Ronald. "Names and Naming in the Plays of Harold Pinter" in Bold Alan (ed.) (1984). Harold Pinter: You Never Heard Such Silence. Vision and Barnes & Noble:London. Knowles Ronald. "The Point of Laughter" in Scott Michael (ed.) (1986). Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming. Macmillan. Lahr John. "Pinter and Chekhov: The Bond of Naturalism" in Ganz Arthur (ed.) 199 (1972). Pinter: A Collection Of Critical Essays. Prentice Hall, N. J. Levin Harry (1963). The Gates of Horn: A Study of Five French Realists. New York: Dryden Press. MCdowall Arthur (1918). Realism: A Study in Art and Thought. London: O.U.P. Morgan Ricki. "What Max and Teddy come Home to in The Homecoming" in Educational Theatre Journal. (March, 1973). Nicoll Allardyce (1962). British Drama. G.G. Harrap: London. Peacock D. Keith (1997). Harold Pinter and The New British Theatre. Green wood Press: London. Pinter Harold. "A Letter to Peter Wood" in Scott Michael (ed.) (1986). Harold Pinter: The Brithday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming. Macmillan. Pinter Harold. Plays: One (The Brithday Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, A Night Out), London: Methuen, 1976. Pinter Harold. Plays: Two (The Caretaker, The Lover, Night School, The Dwarfs), London: Methuen, 1977. Pinter Harold. Plays: Three (The Homecoming, Tea Party, The Basement, Landscape, Silence), London: Methuen, 1978. Pinter Harold Plays: Fowr (Old Times, No Man's Land, Betrayal, Monologue, Family Voice), London: Methuen, 1981. Quigley Austine E. (1975). The Pinter Problem. Princenton: N. J. Roy Emil (1972). Bn'tish Drama Since Shaw. Southern Illinois Univ. Press: Carbondale and Edwardville. Sakallaridou Elizabeth (1988). Pinter's Female Portraits: A Study of Female 200 Characters in the Plays of Harold Pinter Macmillan Press. Salmon Eric. "Harold Pinter's Ear" in Modern Drama, Vol. XVII, No. 4 (December, 1974): Harold Pinter Issue. Scott Michael (ed.) (1986). Harold Pinter: The Bhthday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming, Macmillan. Strindberg Austgust. "Author's preface to Miss Julie" in Five Plays. London: Methuen. (1986): trans. Harry G. Carlson. Strindberg Austgust. "Note to A Dream Play" in Five Plays. London: Methuen, (1986): trans. Harry G. Carlson. Styan J. L. (1981). Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Realism and Naturalism. Vol. One. Cambridge Univ. Press. Sykes Arlene (1970). Harold Pinter St. Lucia: Univ. of Queensland Press. Taylor John R. (1969) Anger and After: A Guide to the New British Drama. London: Methuen. Taylor John R. (1967). The Rise and Fall of the Well-Made play. London: Methuen. Tenant P. F. D. (1948). Ibsen's Dramatic Technique. Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge. The New Encyclopedia Britannica (1987). Vol. V, The Univ. Of Chicago, U.S.A. The Oxford English Dictionary {1978). Vol. VIII, Oxford Clarendon Press. Thilly Frank (1993). A History of Philosophy. Central Publishing House: Allahabad. Thompson David (1985). Pinter: The Player's Playwright. Macmillan. 201 Trusseler Simon, (1974). The Plays of Harold Pinter: An Assessment. Victor Gollancz Ltd: London. Weliek Rene. "The Concept of Realism in Literary Scholarship" in (1963). Concepts of Criticism. New Haven: New York. Wellwarth George (1971). The Theatre of Protest and Paradox. New York Univ. Press: New York. Wickham Glynne (1962). Drama in a World of Science. Routledge and Kegan Paul: London. Worth Katherine. "Pinter and the Realist Tradition" in Scott Michael (ed.) (1986). Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming. Macmillan. Wray Phoebe. "Pinter's Dialogue: The Play on Words" in Modern Drama. Vol. XIII. No. 1 (May,1970). 202 .
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