Pinter at Sixty

To celebrate his sixtieth year, an international group of scholars and theatre artists gathered in 1991 to assess the achievement of British playwright and screenwriter Harold Pinter. These eighteen essays represent the current state of Pinter criticism and an affirmation of PinterÕs preeminence in contemporary British theatre.ContentsPinter in Rehearsal: From The Birthday Party to Mountain Language, by Carey PerloffProducing Pinter, by Louis MarksHarold PinterÕs Theatre of Cruelty, by Martin EsslinHarold PinterÕs The Hothouse: A Parable of the Holocaust, by Rosette C. LamontDisjuncture as Theatrical and Postmodern Practice in Griselda GambaroÕs The Camp and Harold PinterÕs Mountain Language, by Jeanne ColleranThe Outsider in Pinter and Havel, by Susan Hollis MerrittThe Betrayal of Facts: Pinter and Duras beyond Adaptation, by Judith RoofImage and Attention in Harold Pinter, by Alice RaynerPinter and the Ethos of Minimalism, by Jon EricksonChekhov, beckett, Pinter: The St(r)ain upon the Silence, by Alice N. BentsonÒThat first last look . . . ,Ó by Martha FehsenfeldA Rose by any other name: Pinter and Shakespeare, by Hersh ZeifmanFrom Novel to Film: Harold PinterÕs Adaptation of The Trial, by Francis GillenÒI am powerful . . . and I am only the lowest doorkeeperÓ: Power Play in KafkaÕs The Trial and PinterÕs Victoria Station, by John L. Kundert-GibbsArt Objects as Metaphors in the Filmscripts of Harold Pinter, by Steven H. GalePinter and Bowen: The Heat of the Day, by Phyllis R. RandallPortrait of Deborah: A Kind of Alaska, by Moonyoung C. HamDeborahÕs Homecoming in A Kind of Alaska: Afterword, by Katherine H. Burkman