Harold Pinter

David Mamet, an American playwriter and director. Grew up in a suburb of Chicago in the late 1940s, early 50s. His childhood was not always happy, Mamet’s sister once said that there was a lot of emotional violence growing up. Mamet first began to gain an interest in theater from his uncle due to his help landing him some small roles. Before he was a famous playwright, he was an actor and director. He also found St. Nicolas Theater Company. His first successful play was American Buffalo. It has…

The Caretaker The Caretaker is one of the plays by Harold Pinter. Harold was born in Hackney, 1930. He starts writing in 1949, by joining The Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art. He was associated with theatre of absurd. He wrote a lot of plays but these are the famous ones The Collection, Old Times, No Man’s Land and The Caretaker. The Caretaker is an example of the theatre of the absurd, style of drama that was popular in the middle of the 20th century. The play is an example of this…

Chapter 3: Pinter’s Political Activism and Political Plays Can art be separated from politics is a question which has been debated upon by many critics. Personally, I feel that since art is a representation of life, and politics in life begins when at least two individuals are involved, it can never be separated from politics. However hard an artist tries to separate his work from the tricky games of politics, his efforts turn out to be futile as the artist’s own idea in his work is a political…

After reading the past novels in English class and doing multiple theories of analysis, I have decided the theory that I best relate with is reader response. The reason behind me choosing reader response is that throughout reading all the novels assigned I always tended to make a comparison to my modern day teenage life. As multiple of my previous analysis and explication videos have shown I tend to relate to the character struggling or the character that is in the pressure situation. Reader…

Outline 1- Definitions: a) The frustration of not achieving a goal and antagonistic and annoying actions like offenses, gashes and blusters are definitely led to anger. b) Unlike other aversive emotions such as grief and fear, which include suppression and retreat, Dagleish identifies anger as a negative emotion, but includes a positive approach. c) Cox and Harrison simply define the structure of anger as a multidimensional one with different influential and cognitive dimensions and various…

Folk humour and satire were the replies due to the domination of the Catholic church of 19th-century French Canadian culture. A light comedy that ridiculed local traditions was typical of 19th-century theatre in Quebec. By the early 20th century, the sardonic practice was well developed in English Canada as demonstrated in the writings of Stephen Leacock. In his work Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town which was published in 1912, made Leacock legendary for his satirical wit, he used tragic irony…

Mapping the elements of absurdism in Albert Camus’ The myth of Sisyphus Nirmit Bhatnagar B.A(hons) English Vth Sem…

their writing were named as Theatre of Absurd. There was no such thing as an Absurdist crusade taking specific playwrights fitting in that kind. The Theatre of the Absurd encompassed many miscellaneous writers such as Jean Genet, Arthur Adamov, Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett and more. TotA came to life as a result of the World War II. When both…