Harold Pinter one of the most prominent and influential British playwright of the second half of the 20th century. His plays are distinguished from all other by their sense of suspense, mystification and ambiguity. Pinter has a specific technique to explore and elicit the mystery of human relationships.
Pinter plays are characteristic of minimal plots and limited characters but the dialogues filled with powerful tension. He uses pauses, three dots and silence in his plays. They are the very essential and unique things of his dramatic dialogue.
For Pinter silence is communication. The unexpressed is an integral element of the linguistic function. By the use of silence and pauses he gives a precise form to the seemingly ordinary and an emotional …show more content…
He believed that “below the word spoken is the thing known and unspoken.” The famous ‘pause’ he injected into his playwriting became part of a genre of drama that came to be known as ‘Pinteresque.’ Apart from writing plays, essays, and poetry, he collaborated with directors on screenplays for films, and even directed the plays of others. His contribution to modern theatre has been summed up in one theatrical terminology, which is “Pintereque”, a word that describes his distinctive innovations in both form and content. His plays are distinguished from all other by their sense of suspense, mystification and ambiguity. Pinter has a specific technique to explore and elicit the mystery of human relationships.
Pinter plays are characteristic of minimal plots and limited characters but the dialogues filled with powerful tension. He uses pauses, three dots and silence in his plays. They are the very essential and unique things of his dramatic dialogue. For Pinter silence is communication. The unexpressed is an integral element of the linguistic function. By the use of silence and pauses he gives a precise form to the seemingly ordinary and an emotional power to the …show more content…
The play centers on the life of the main protagonist Stanley Webber, an unemployed pianist, who, for the last year, has been living as a lodger with Meg and Petey Boles in their sea-side boarding house. Stanley is living in idle seclusion away from the outside world. However, the relatively peaceful, domestic atmosphere of the boarding house is disturbed by the intrusion of two unknown characters, Goldberg and McCann. The two men are “agents” of an “organization” and have come to claim Stanley .The dialogue in the opening scene between Petey and Meg is filled with inane questions asked by Meg followed by Petey’s monosyllabic
Pinter plays are characteristic of minimal plots and limited characters but the dialogues filled with powerful tension. He uses pauses, three dots and silence in his plays. They are the very essential and unique things of his dramatic dialogue.
For Pinter silence is communication. The unexpressed is an integral element of the linguistic function. By the use of silence and pauses he gives a precise form to the seemingly ordinary and an emotional …show more content…
He believed that “below the word spoken is the thing known and unspoken.” The famous ‘pause’ he injected into his playwriting became part of a genre of drama that came to be known as ‘Pinteresque.’ Apart from writing plays, essays, and poetry, he collaborated with directors on screenplays for films, and even directed the plays of others. His contribution to modern theatre has been summed up in one theatrical terminology, which is “Pintereque”, a word that describes his distinctive innovations in both form and content. His plays are distinguished from all other by their sense of suspense, mystification and ambiguity. Pinter has a specific technique to explore and elicit the mystery of human relationships.
Pinter plays are characteristic of minimal plots and limited characters but the dialogues filled with powerful tension. He uses pauses, three dots and silence in his plays. They are the very essential and unique things of his dramatic dialogue. For Pinter silence is communication. The unexpressed is an integral element of the linguistic function. By the use of silence and pauses he gives a precise form to the seemingly ordinary and an emotional power to the …show more content…
The play centers on the life of the main protagonist Stanley Webber, an unemployed pianist, who, for the last year, has been living as a lodger with Meg and Petey Boles in their sea-side boarding house. Stanley is living in idle seclusion away from the outside world. However, the relatively peaceful, domestic atmosphere of the boarding house is disturbed by the intrusion of two unknown characters, Goldberg and McCann. The two men are “agents” of an “organization” and have come to claim Stanley .The dialogue in the opening scene between Petey and Meg is filled with inane questions asked by Meg followed by Petey’s monosyllabic