FREE HAROLD PINTER: PLAYS 3: THE HOMECOMING; OLD TIMES; NO MANS LAND PDF Harold Pinter | 400 pages | 02 Dec 1997 | FABER & FABER | 9780571193837 | English | London, United Kingdom Old Times - Wikipedia Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Plays 3 by Harold Pinter. Get A Copy. Published first published May 4th More Details Other Editions 4. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Plays 3please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Rating details. More filters. Sort order. These plays messed with my head. The four stars are principally for 'The Homecoming', one of my favourite plays and one which I'm writing about for coursework in conjunction with 'King Lear'. The other plays in this collection are some of his more obscure and ambiguous works. Not to say that they're not just as infused with Pinter's black humour and twisted tone. Apr 22, John Wilcock rated it really liked it Shelves: play. Worth it for No Man's Land alone. I think The Birthday Party Harold Pinter: Plays 3: The Homecoming; Old Times; No Mans Land tips it as Pinter's best play but this is a close second and in performance normally I prefer this one. I'd probably suggest that starting with volume 1 would be better but this selection is by no means for completists only. 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He was one of the most influential playwrights of modern times. In he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. After publishing poetry and acting in school plays as a teenager in London, Pinter began his professional theatrical career intouring throughout Ireland. Fromhe acted in repertory companies throughout England for about a dozen years, using the stage name David Baron in the late s. Beginning with his first play, The RoomPinter's writing career spanned over 50 years and produced 29 original stage plays, 27 screenplays, many dramatic sketches, radio and TV plays, poetry, one novel, short fiction, essays, speeches, and letters. His best-known plays include The Birthday PartyThe CaretakerThe Homecomingand Betrayaleach of which he adapted to film. He directed almost 50 stage, television, and film productions and acted extensively in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works. Despite frail health after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in DecemberPinter continued to act on stage and screen, last performing the title role in a critically-acclaimed stage production of Samuel Beckett's one-act monologue Krapp's Last Tapefor the 50th anniversary season of the Royal Court Theatre, in October 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. Thematically ambiguous, they raise complex issues of individual identity oppressed by social forces, language, and vicissitudes of memory. InPinter stated that he was not inclined to write plays explicitly about political subjects; yet in the mids 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. Pinter, his work, and his politics have been the subject of voluminous critical commentary. Pinter received numerous awards. Festivals and symposia have been devoted to him and his work. In awarding the Nobel Prize, the Swedish Academy noted, "That he occupies a position as a modern classic is illustrated by his name entering the language as an adjective used to describe a particular atmosphere and environment in drama: 'Pinteresque'". He died from liver cancer on 24 December Harold Pinter: Plays 3: The Homecoming; Old Times; No Mans Land Books by Harold Pinter. Escape the Present with These 24 Harold Pinter: Plays 3: The Homecoming; Old Times; No Mans Land Romances. You know the saying: There's no time like the present In that Harold Pinter: Plays 3: The Homecoming; Old Times; No Mans Land, we can't Read more Trivia About Plays 3: The Home No trivia or quizzes yet. Welcome back. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Harold Pinter Plays 3: The Homecoming; Old Times; No Man's Land - Works of Harold Pinter provides a list of Harold Pinter 's stage and television plays; awards and nominations for plays; radio plays; screenplays for films; awards and nominations for screenwriting; dramatic sketches; prose fiction; collected poetry; and awards for poetry. It augments a section of the main article on this author. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirected from Works of Harold Pinter. Wikipedia list article. Main article: Harold Pinter. Literature portal. Online posting. New York Times 31 July Recent productions and publications do refer to it more generically, as a "play", following the website's "Plays" section. 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Wikiquote has quotations related to: Harold Pinter. Harold Pinter Plays 3: includes The Homecoming, Old Times, and No Man’s Land by Harold Pinter Born : October 10th, London, England. Died : December 24th, You leave the theater a bit disturbed, a bit excited, and more than a bit unbalanced. The plays are fueled by intense dialogue that seems disconnected from any sort of exposition. The audience rarely knows the background of the characters. The plays do offer a consistent theme: domination. Though his earlier plays were exercises in absurdity, his later dramas became overtly political. During the last decade of his life, he focused less on writing and more on political activism of the left-wing variety. Inhe won the Nobel Prize for Literature. During his Nobel lecture he stated:. Politics aside, his plays capture a nightmarish electricity that jolts the theater. A distraught and disheveled Stanley Webber may or may not be a piano player. It may or may not be his birthday. He may or may not know the two diabolically bureaucratic visitors that have come to intimidate him. There are many uncertainties throughout this surreal drama. However, one thing is definite: Stanley is an example of a powerless character struggling against powerful entities. And you can Harold Pinter: Plays 3: The Homecoming; Old Times; No Mans Land guess who is Harold Pinter: Plays 3: The Homecoming; Old Times; No Mans Land to win. It has been said that this one-act play was the inspiration for the film In Bruges. After viewing both the Colin Farrell movie and the Pinter play, it is Harold Pinter: Plays 3: The Homecoming; Old Times; No Mans Land to see the connections. As they wait to receive orders for their next deadly assignment, something rather odd happens. The dumbwaiter at the back of the room continually lowers down food orders. The more the food orders persist, the more the assassins turn on each other. Unlike his earlier plays, The Caretaker was a financial victory, the first of many commercial successes. The full-length play takes place entirely in a shabby, one-room apartment owned by two brothers. One of the brothers is mentally disabled apparently from electro-shock therapy. A powerplay begins between the homeless man and the brothers. Each character talks vaguely about things they want to accomplish in their life — but not one of the characters lives up to his word.