It publishes The Pinter Review and organizes conferences. The Harold Pinter Society was founded in 1991. Despite Pinter's relative decrease in creative output, academic attention on Pinter remains as heavy as ever. The true natures and motivations of his characters emerge in their silences. His most obvious forbear is Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, who took silences to a new level, and other playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd (a French dramatic movement in the 1950s), but whereas Beckett's silences hint at alienation, boredom, and the slow approach to death, Pinter's are ominous and violent. Pinter has spoken much on the subject, and has categorized speech as that which attempts to cover the nakedness of silence. Just as important, however, are the silences in his plays. His compressed, rhythmic lines rely heavily on subtext and hint at darker meanings. Pinter's language, usually lower-class vernacular, has been described as poetic. His works, which blend comedy and drama, often focus on jealousy, betrayal, and sexual politics, but it is his dialogue-and the lack of dialogue-for which he is known. Pinter's plays generally take place in a single, prison-like room. His actions are not without controversy or contradiction-he attacked the NATO intervention in Kosovo in 1999, and in 2001 joined The International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serbian president arrested by the United Nations for crimes against humanity. He has since become an outspoken advocate of human rights, and has criticized the Gulf War bombings and other military actions. He was particularly distressed by the dictatorial coup that overthrew Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1973. Royal Academy), Pinter was motivated to be more political-both in his works and in his public life. A conscientious objector of war when he was eighteen (for which he was fined by the After 1978's Betrayal, Pinter did not write another full-length play until 1994, but he continued writing shorter plays and adapting the work of others for the stage and screen. He frequently directed, and sometimes acted in, his growing body of work in the 1960s and 1970s, while disseminating his work into radio, television, and film. The Dumb Waiter, also staged in 1960, helped cement Pinter's status as a major theatrical figure. The reception was unfavorable-it closed within a week-but Pinter's next full-length play, The Caretaker (1960), won more accolades. His first produced play-The Birthday Partycame a year later. In 1957, he wrote his first play in four days, The Room, a sign of the prolific output to come. He left the school after two years, and spent most of the 1950s writing his published poetry (under the name Harold Pinter) and acting in small theater productions (often under the pseudonym David Baron).
He began acting in plays at his grammar school, and later received a grant to study at London's prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. He evacuated to Cornwall, England, at the outbreak of World War II in 1939, and returned to London when he was 14.
He was born in the working-class neighborhood of East London's Hackney (an ironic name for such an original writer) in 1930, the son of a Jewish tailor. Repetition symbols.The dumb waiterĬontext Harold Pinter is one of the most acclaimed contemporary British playwrights, noted particularly for his early body of work. The Silence and Violence of Language Anxiety Over Social Class motifs. There are a few clues that Ben will betray Gus, such as his slip-up when giving directions to Gus the messages from the dumb waiter show that the café is not defunct, as Ben says it is tone. Gus and Ben stare at each other in silence tense. Wilson and, eventually, Ben setting (time). Both men share the role of protagonist, although the audience may empathize with Gus primarily antagonist. The climax occurs when Ben pulls his gun on Gus protagonist. 1960 in London, England date of first production.
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