Pinter Criticism

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	Tulane Drama Review, British Theatre 1956-66 Various, article on Pinter by Kelly Morris Tulane Drama Review	1966	p. 185 article on 'The Homecoming'
	Pinter Martin Esslin Friedrich Verlag Velber bei Hanover	1967	German
	Harold Pinter Walter Kerr Columbia University Press	1967	Pamphlet
	Plays of Harold Pinter Kenneth S Woodroofe Thoughts Current in English Literature	1967	Pamphlet
	Harold Pinter Arnold P Hinchliffe Twayne's Publishers, New York	1967	Twayne's English. Author's Feries
	El Absurdo entre Cuatro Paredes: El teatro de Harold Pinter Ariel Dorfman San Francisco University press	1968	(Spanish) Dorfman waited 22 years to present this book to Pinter as it was abandoned in Chile when he had to flee due to the political situation. In the front of Pinter's copy the dedication reads; 'This has waited 22 years and thousands of miles and lots of love and admiration from so near and so far, so I could bring this to you, Harold and of course for you Antonia, from Chile that is now democratic and still threatened, Ariel, Nov, 1990'.
	Harold Pinter - dramaturge de l'ambiguite Daniel Salem Denoel	1968	French
	Stratagems to Uncover Nakedness - The drama's of Harold Pinter Lois G Gordon University of Missouri Press	1969
	Harold Pinter John Russell Taylor Longmans, Green & Co.	1969	'Studies development of Pinter's so called comedy of menace exemplified in The Birthday Party in which the mood alternates between the jocular and the terrifying, with the humour matching the horror, to the later pieces such as Tea Party and the Homecoming, which explore the question of personal identity and the verification of experience.'
	The Peopled Wound: The Plays of Harold Pinter Martin Esslin Methuen	1970	'Throughout the book the author has kept the wider context of Pinter's work in mind so that, in the last analysis, its scope transcends the confines of a monograph on one dramatist and becomes a contribution to the understanding of contemporary drama in general as well as an important addition to the theory of playwriting itself.'
	Pinter - The Playwright Martin Esslin Methuen	1970	'Martin Esslin's study has become a standard work since its publication in 1970. This fifth, expanded edition covers Pinter's most recent plays, including Mountain Language, The New World Order and Party TimeÉ'
	Harold Pinter Arlene Sykes University of Queensland	1970	'Covers the whole body of Pinter's dramatic work in print, and, most important, his plays for stage, radio, and television are analysed in terms of the media for which they were written.'
	Pinter - Study of his Plays Martin Esslin Methuen	1970	An up to date 'The Peopled Wound' and includes new section on Old Times.
	Harold Pinter, The Poetics of Silence James R Hollis Feffer & Simons, inc.	1970	'Deals with his significance for the contemporary experience'.
	Casebook on Harold Pinter's -The Homecoming John Lahr Grove Press	1971	Contains interviews about the approach to the play by a director, a designer and various actors.
	Etudes Anglaises Daniel Salem Didier	1972	Les Adaptations Cinematographique de Pinter French
	Pinter - a Collection of Critical essays Arthur Ganz Prentice Hall	1972	'Martin Esslin, Ruby Cohn, John Russell Taylor, and an impressive list of other critics (including Pinter himself) offer an engrossing assessment of the dramatic and psychological evolution of Harold Pinter's work'.
	Theatre Language John Russell Brown Alan Lane, Penguin	1972	On the language of Arden, Osborne, Pinter and Wesker, section on Pinter p.15 - 118
	Revolutions in Modern English Drama Katherine J Worth G. Bell & Sons	1972	Section on Pinter p.86, post war English playwrights are seen against the background of the pre-war theatre.
	Harold Pinter W illiam Baker & Stephen Ely Tabachnik Oliver & Boyd	1973	Exploration of Pinter's ethnic background and his art. Makes use of previously unpublished letters and biographical information.
	The Plays of Harold Pinter, an Assessment Simon Trussler Victor Gollancz Ltd.	1973	'Brings Pinter-criticism down from the rarefied heights of applied Freudian psychology. He looks afresh at each play, considers its relation to contemporary political and philosophical thought and evaluates its success or failure as an artistic whole.
	Film Literature Quarterly Edward T. Jones Salisbury State College	1973	Volume 1 No.2 Writing on The Go Between.
	The Pinter Problem Austin E Quigley Princeton University Press	1975	'Examines the existing scholarship in the field to discover the cause of the current impasse of critics to understand Pinter's work'.
	Anger and Detachment: A Study of Arden, Osborne and Pinter Michael Anderson Pitman Publishing	1976	Theatre Today Series
	Where Laughter Stops - Pinter's Tragicomedy Bernard F. Dukore University of Missouri Press	1976
	The Dream Structure of Pinter Plays - A Psychoanalytic Approach Lucina Paquet Gabbard Fairleigh Dickenson University Press	1976	'Harold Pinter's works have provoked critical controversy because of their obscurities, ambiguities and interrelationships. Dr. Gabbard approaches these problems through the mechanisms of the dream and shows that the plays group around the oedipal wishÉ'.
	Il Theatro di Harold Pinter Guido Davico Bonino Martano	1977	Italian
	The Language of Modern Drama Gareth Lloyd Evans Rowman and Littlefield	1977	Section on Pinter p.166
	Butter's going up - A critical analysis of Harold Pinter's work Stephen H Gale Duke University Press	1977	'Demonstrates effectively that Pinter writes groups of plays on a major theme, then moves on to a new theme and another series of dramatic variations.'
	Pinter, A Bibliography Compiled by Rudiger Imhof TQ Publications Ltd.	1978	His works and occasional writings with a comprehensive checklist of criticism and reviews of the London Productions.
	Harold Pinter: An Annotated Bibliography Professor Steven H. Gale Boston: G.K. Hall	1978
	Comparative Drama, vol.12, no.3 - Dance to a Cut Throat Temper: Harold Pinter's Poetry as an index to intended Audience Response Christopher C Hudgins Comparative Drama	1978	Section on Pinter p.214
	Studies in Foreign Literature, Facing Facts - The case for Betrayal as Pinter's best play. Leonard H Knight Nara Women's University	1979
	Playing Safe - No Man's Land: Pinter's cold Pastoral Leonard H Knight Nara Women's University	1979
	Stratford-upon-Avon Studies Malcolm Bradbury and David Palmer (editors) Edward Arnold	1981	Chapter IV "Harold Pinter's Idiom of Lies', by Guido Almansi
	Post-war British Theatre Criticism John Elsom Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd	1981	Section on The Homecoming p.155
	Cinematic Fidelity and the forms of Pinter's Betrayal Enoch Brater Enoch Brater	1981
	Harold Pinter Bernard F. Dukore Macmillan	1982	Exploration of Pinter's dramatic art, succinct biography of his life and work and discussion of Pinter's place in contemporary drama.
	Harold Pinter Guido Almansi and Simon Henderson Methuen	1983	Contemporary Writers
	Harold Pinter: You never Heard Such Silence Alan Bold (editor) Vision	1984	Critical Studies Series includes sections written by Peter Hall, Randall Stevenson, Jennifer L Randisi, Stanley Eveling, Charles A Carpenter, Ronald Knowles, Katherine H Berkman, Steven H Gale and Bernard F Dukore.
	Cagdas tiyatroda Harold Pinter gelenegi Jak Deleon Turyag	1984	Turkish
	Radici Sepolte Il Teatro di Harold Pinter Dario Calimani Leo S. Olschki	1985	Italian
	Pinter's Comic Play Elin Diamond Associated University Press	1985	'What is the basis for Harold Pinter's tense comedy, and how does it function in his plays'. Covers major drama from The Room to Other Places.
	Pinter - The Player's Playwright David T. Thompson Macmillan	1985	Discloses previously unknown information about the early acting of Pinter, throwing new light on his special theatrical qualities.
	The Basement : Harold Pinter on BBC TV Christopher H Hudgins Modern Drama	1985	Pamphlet
	Making Pictures: The Pinter screenplays Joanne Klein Ohio State University Press	1985	Looks at Pinter's adaptations of other people's novels.
	Harold Pinter: Critical Approaches Professor Steven H. Gale Boston: G.K. Hall	1986	Rutherford, NJ: Farleigh Dickingson University Press. (also, London and Toronto, Associatied University Presses). 16 articles and additional meterial on a range of Pinter's work from a diversity of scholarly points of view.
	Stundenblatter Pinter, The Dumb Waiter Wolfgang Herrlinger Ernst Klett Verlag	1986	German
	New British Drama in Performance on The London Stage 1970-1985 Richard Allen Cave Colin Smythe	1987	Chapter 1 on Pinter
	Harold Pinter Roberto Canziani and Lorenzo Codelli Trieste Tratro Stabile	1988	Italian
	Cithara Penelope Prentice St Bonaventure University	1988	Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition: Love and Survival: The Quintessence of Harold Pinter's Plays
	Pinter's Female Portraits Elizabeth Sakellaridou Macmillan Press Ltd.	1988
	Harold Pinter - A Casebook Lois Gordon Garland	1990	Contains essays by Esslin, Cohn, Quingley, Lodge, Ben-Zvi, Wellwarth, Burkman, Gale, Hollis Merrit, Mengel, Gillen and Gordon
	Critical Essays on Harold Pinter Steven H. Gale G.K. Hall and Co	1990	Includes essays by Diamond Sykes and Gillen. La Figura Femminile Nel Teatro Di Harold Pinter Patrizia Tambosi Centro di Cultura Dell'Alto Adige 1990 Italian
	Human Communications - Models for Analysis - The Language of Harold Pinter's Plays Doina Lecca Universitatea Din Bucuresti	1990	Course of lectures held in Bucharest
	La Figura Femminile nel Teatro di Harold Pinter Patrizia Tambosi Bolzano	1990	Pamphlet in Italian
	Pinter in Play Susan Hollis Merritt Duke University Press	1990	'Survey of diverse reading of the Harold Pinter canon organised around and presented in terms of the major critical schools the past twenty-five years, from New Criticism to deconstruction to poststructuralism.'
	Harold Pinter The Dramatist Chitranjan Misra Creative, New Delhi	1992	Attempts to understand the 'synthesis of naturalistic and non-naturalistic elements worked out by the playwright'.
	El Llenguatge en la Produccio Teatral De Harold Pinter Mireia Aragay I Sastre PPU, SA	1992	Spanish
	A Kind of Alaska - women in the plays of O'Niell, Pinter, and Shepard Ann C. Hall Southern Illinois University Press	1993	Pinter's whores, chapter 3.
	File on Pinter Malcolm Page Cox & Wyman Ltd.	1993	Checklist of Pinter's plays, detailed performance history, excerpted reviews and a selection of the writer's own comments on his work.
	Pinter at Sixty Edited by Katherine H Burkman & John L Kundert - Gibbs Indiana University Press	1993	'To celebrate his sixtieth year, an international group of scholars and theatre artists gathered in 1991 to asses the achievements of Harold Pinter. The eighteen essays gathered here discuss Pinter in production, his politics, and his poetics.'
	Harold Pinter and the Language of Cultural Power Marc Silverstein Lewisburg Bucknell University Press	1993	'Addresses how language functions in Pinter's plays, what the relationship is between language and subjectivity in the plays, and what the plays reveal about how language serves as a vehicle for cultural power'.
	Conversations avec - Harold Pinter Mel Gussow Denoel	1994	French
	Harold Pinter A Question of Timing Martin S. Regal, Reyjavik University Macmillan	1995	Focuses on the way in which Harold Pinter conceives of and dramatises timeÉ.'
	Harold Pinter Un Ritratto Gianfranco Capitta and Roberto Canziani Anabasi	1995	Italian.
	Understanding Harold Pinter Ronald Knowles University of South Carolina	1995	'Comprehensive, accessible introduction to Pinter.'
	Harold Pinter - A question of Timing Martin S Regal St. Mark's Press inc.	1995	French
	Site Unseen: Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard and other contemporary dramatists on Radio Elissa S Guralnick Ohio University Press	1996	Chapter four on a Slight Ache
	The Life and Works of Harold Pinter Michael Billington Faber & Faber	1996	First authorised biographical study of Pinter.
	Coup de Theatre Nicole Boireau (editor) RADAC	1997	Regards sur The Caretaker. (French)
	Cycnos Genevieve Chevalier, Centre de Recherche sur les Ecritures de Langue Anglaise Universite de Nice	1997	French
	Kafka and Pinter: Shadow Boxing Raymond Armstrong St. Martin's Press	1999	First major study to focus on the extraordinary affinity between these two heavyweights of twentieth-century literature.'
	Harold Pinter - The Caretaker, The Birthday Party, The Homecoming Bill Naismith Faber & Faber	2000	Study guide to The Caretaker, The Birthday Party and The Homecoming. (To see Review)
	The Pinter Ethic - The Erotic Aesthetic Penelope Prentice Garland Publishing	2000	'A comprehensive study that looks at every single Pinter play and film script all wrapped up under an intriguing subtitle.'
	Harold Pinter - A Celebration Various, with an introduction by Richard Eyre Faber & Faber	2000	'In this tribute to Pinter on his seventieth birthday, a number of people from theatre, television, radio and the worlds of cricket and political commentary have come together to celebrate the writer and the man in specially written pieces for this book.
	Harold Pinter: The Films Professor Steven H. Gale Boston: G.K. Hall	April 2001	State University of New York Press (Albany). To include ten articles on Pinter's films.
	Writers & their Work: Harold Pinter By Dr. Mark Batty Publishers: Northcote House	August 2001	Study Guide to the dramatic works of Harold Pinter with emphasis on the theatrical potential of the plays.
	The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter Edited by Peter Raby Published by Cambridge University Press	September 2001	The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter provides an introduction to one of the world’s leading and most controversial writers, whose output in many genres and roles continues to grow.
	The Pinter Review Edited by Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale Published by University of Tampa Press	2002	Collected Essays 2001 and 2002 with contributions from Donald Freed, Mel Gussow, Francis Gillen, Eileen Diss, Prapasseree T. Kramer, Steven H. Gale and many more.
	Pinter and the Object of Desire: An Approach through the Screenplays By Linda Renton. Published by Legenda, European Humanities Research Centre, Oxford University.	May 2002	A reading of the screenplays which shows Pinter at the forefront of film theory, and offers a fresh approach to the stage plays and other works.
	Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter’s Screenplays and the Artistic Process. Published by The University Press of Kentucky	Aug 2003	Gale analyzes Pinter’s creative process from initial conception to finished film
	The Art of Crime: The plays and films of Harold Pinter and David Mamet.  Edited by Leslie Kane Published by Routledge	2004	The Art of Crime is the first volume to examine the centrality of crime in the work of Harold Pinter and David Mamet.
	The Pinter Review Edited by Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale Published by University of Tampa Press	2004	Collected Essays 2003 and 2004 with contributions from Mark Batty, Susan Hollis Merritt, Charles Grimes, Francis Gillen, David Jones, Steven H. Gale and many more.
	Pinter in the Theatre, compiled and edited by Ian Smith . Published by Nick Hern Books.	Feb 2005	This is a multi-faceted exploration of an immensely pragmatic man of the theatre - a book for those who wish to investigate the practical processes by which Pinter's work in the theatre is made.
	The Faber Book of Monologues: Men. Edited by Jane Edwardes Published by Faber	Feb 2005	It includes an exciting selection of speeches from a diverse range of first-class playwrights, including, of course, Harold Pinter.
	About Pinter: The Playwright and the Work by Dr. Mark Batty Published by Faber	Sept 2005	The book is part of the ‘About....' series. An ideal, one stop book for Drama and English teachers in schools, for students at college and university, and for those who want to know more about the playwright and the work.
	Harold Pinter A Bibliographical History William Baker and John C. Ross ISBN 0712348859 Published by The British Library Published in North America by Oak Knoll Press	July 2005	Harold Pinter is one of the most prolific of living British authors, with a writing career so far of fifty-eight years. This bibliographical history provides a comprehensive account of the print-published writings, and texts in other media, which he has wholly or partly authored, and will be a valuable resource for all who have a scholarly interest in modern British literature.
	Harold Pinter and the Twilight of Modernism Varun Begley ISBN 0802038875 Published by University of Toronto Press	2005	The Frankfurt School's discourse on modernism has seldom been linked to contemporary drama, though the questions of aesthetics and politics seem especially germane to the plays of Harold Pinter. Examining plays from 1958 to 1996, Varun Begley argues that Pinter's work simultaneously embodies the modernist principle of negation and the more fluid aesthetics of the postmodern.
	Harold Pinter's Politics: A Silence Beyond Echo Charles Grimes ISBN 0838640508 Published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press	2005	Harold Pinter's Politics examines the expression of Pinter's political beliefs across every aspect and era of his artistic career.
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