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Plays:2 The Caretaker .Night School. The Dwarfs. The Collection. The Lover. Night School . Trouble in the works. The black and white request stop. ... Dwarfs", "The Collection", "The Lover" v. 2 [Paperback]

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Publication Date: 15 Jan 1996

The second volume of Harold Pinter's collected work includes The Caretaker.

The Caretaker

It was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success. The obsessive caretaker, Davies, is a classic comic creation, and his uneasy relationship with the enigmatic Aston and Mick a landmark in twentieth-century drama.

'The play remains a masterpiece.' Daily Telegraph

The Collection

This one-act play for television explores the sexual manoeuvres between two couples in the clothing trade.

'Taps the adrenal flow of contemporary guilt and anxiety.' Time

The Lover

Richard and Sarah conduct themselves with apparent respectability in the mornings, whilst living out a sequence of erotic rituals in the afternoons.

'Beautifully written... the sexiest play I remember seeing on the television.' Sunday Times

The volume also includes Night School and The Dwarfs, plus five revue sketches written during the same period.

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Plays:2 The Caretaker .Night School. The Dwarfs. The Collection. The Lover. Night School . Trouble in the works. The black and white request stop. ... Dwarfs", "The Collection", "The Lover" v. 2 + Plays 1: The Birthday Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Hothouse, A Night Out, The Black and White, The Examina,Vol. 1 (Faber ... and White (Prose), "The Examination" v. 1 + Harold Pinter Plays 3: includes The Homecoming, Old Times, and No Man’s Land: "The Homecoming", "Tea Party", "The Basement", "Landscape", "Silence", ... Story) Vol 3 (Faber Contemporary Classics)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber; New Ed edition (15 Jan 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0571177441
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571177448
  • Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 19.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 37,759 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 and they married in 1980. In 1995 he won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, awarded for a lifetime's achievement in literature. In 1996 he was given the Laurence Olivier Award for a lifetime's achievement in theatre. In 2002 he was made a Companion of Honour for services to literature. In 2005 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and, in the same year, the Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry and the Franz Kafka Award (Prague). In 2006 he was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize and, in 2007, the highest French honour, the Légion d'honneur. He died in December 2008.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Harold Pinter collection 15 Sep 2011
By RR Waller TOP 500 REVIEWER
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After a brief introduction, a speech he made in 1955 after receiving the David Cohen British Literature Prize, the book is exactly what it says on the cover: "Harold Pinter: Plays" a mixture of his less well-known plays and, probably, his most famous:

"The Caretaker"
"Night School"
"The Dwarfs"
"The Collection"
"The Lover"
"Night School"
"Trouble in the works"
"The black and white request stop."
"The Collection"
"The Lover"

Pinter's plays are not to everyone's taste and really need to be seen, acted well, rather than read, although to study them at leisure, reading is obviously essential and these editions are ideal for that. His plays need to be acted well to make use of the selective pauses, "non sequiturs", over-lapping dialogue and non-verbal language. Fortunately, his plays attract good theatres and "actOrs" able to lift the script from the page.

A mixture of very well-known and not so well-known plays, this edition contains a rich selection of his eerie, threatening, austere, normal, introspective worlds. On one page, forty-six pauses, one of his few directions - [Pause]. His characters always seem "involved", if that is the appropriate word, in a long series of disconnected conversations, lives which tangentially bump into one another, like bumper-cars at the fair - intimate contact but no communication.

In an essay on "The Caretaker", I was once harshly - but rightly - criticised by a professor who recognised in my writing the notion that the characters had continued to live beyond the final curtain. I had taken them home and lived with them for a while before consinging them to the page. This, he informed me, was not the realm of literary criticism, idle speculation on the non-existent. Some of Pinter's characters and settings have that ability to live on, off the stage and page, to haunt, to populate the imagination.

"Mother, mother, I've had the most unpleasant, the most mystifying encounter with the man who calls himself Mr Withers. Will you give me your advice?" "Family Voices", (P 142)
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5.0 out of 5 stars The beginning of the "political" and some of his finest work 6 Dec 2003
By Christopher Culver - Published on Amazon.com
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HAROLD PINTER: PLAYS 4 includes all of the superb dramatist's plays from 1978's "Betrayal" to 1996's "Ashes to Ashes." It marks the end of his more "traditional" pieces and ushers in the era of his concern, sparked by the horrors of El Salvador and Turkey, for human rights abuses and government oppression.

The opening play, "Betrayal," is one of Pinter's most innovative works. Each act of the play takes place chronologically before the previous, resulting in a backward hunt for the source of an adulterous relationship. While ostensibly about adultery, the play really deals with the various kind of betrayal that human beings face: betrayal to friends, betrayal to family, and even betrayal of self. "A Kind of Alaska" is an idiosyncratic play based on Oliver Sacks's novel AWAKENINGS which treats a woman's cure from sleeping sickness. It is one of the most enigmatic of Pinter's plays, and I still do not feel as if I get it.

With "Mountain Language," Pinter created his first overtly political piece. "Mountain Language" is without partisan bias or personal attacks, and doesn't even try to present an opposing voice, it simply introduces a setting of harrowing totalitarianism and allows oppressive rule to prove itself evil. In "The New World Order" and "Party Time," Pinter shows oppression occuring in the democratic first world among the upper-middle class, precisely where one would not expect it, in order to make the spectator or reader think about his nation's contributions to oppression. But Pinter's playwriter remains intensely focused on personal actions; by the volume's final play, "Ashes to Ashes," national policy really isn't really what's being attacked, but it instead forms the mere backdrop for an exploration of individual Man's cruelty to his fellow human being.

If Pinter's politics leave you displeased, this fourth volume of his collected plays is not for you. But for play-lovers who think that with his political engagement Pinter has entered a brilliant second phase of his playwriting life, HAROLD PINTER: PLAYS 4 is a must-have.

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