Harold Pinter (1930-2008)

A selective list of online literary criticism for Harold Pinter, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites

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Literary Criticism

"Harold Pinter." Poetry Archive. Directors, Andrew Motion & Richard Carrington.

Billington, Michael. On Pinter's prose-poem Kullus, from The Life and Work of Harold Pinter by Michael Billington (Faber and Faber, 1996)

Billington, Michael. A review of The Life and Work of Harold Pinter, in the New Statesman, Oct 11, 1996 by Aleks Sierz (taken offline)

Billington, Michael. Harold Pinter's biographer answers questions on Pinter on "Pinter at the BBC."

Billington, Michael. An overview of Pinter's career, on the occasion of his 70th birthday An article by Michael Billington in The Guardian, 10/14/00

Jabri, Vivienne. Pinter, Radical Critique, and Politics, in Borderlands e-journal

Knowles, Ronald. Reviews of two scholarly books on Pinter, Harold Pinter: An Annotated Bibliography, by Steven H. Gale, and Where Laughter Stops: Pinter's tragicomedy, by Bernard F. Dukore. Review by Ronald Knowles in Journal of Beckett Studies

Raby, Peter. The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter, edited by Peter Raby. Publisher's blurb

Wyllie, Andrew. An introduction to Harold Pinter from the Literary Encyclopedia 20 June 2002. On The Birthday Party (1958); The Caretaker (1960); The Homecoming (1965)

Web sites

As the Guardian notes, Harold Pinter's only rival in theatrical influence in this half-century was Samuel Beckett. The Guardian obituary

A review of Krapp's Last Tape, with Harold Pinter, Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs. "Harold Pinter, too frail last year to receive his Nobel Prize in person, takes his last bow. An actor for fifty-seven years, a writer for nearly fifty and an admirer since 1949, Pinter performs this most retrospective of the plays by his long-time friend forty-eight years after its premiere in this same theatre." TLS, October 20, 2006, by Jim McCue.

Pinter wins 2005 Nobel Prize for literature

Pinter's own web site Haroldpinter.org has current news about the playwright and a wealth of information, including details about productions of all the plays and reviews of important productions and film versions, details about Pinter's acting experience, links to published interviews and articles about Pinter, and much more

The Pinter manuscripts held at the British Library (moved). See also for those doing research in the Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library, information from Professor Susan Hollis Merritt

Pinter discusses Slobodan Milosevic in an interview, The Guardian, 8/3/01

A profile of Pinter by Stephen Moss in The Guardian, 9/4/99

The New Statesman Interview, Harold Pinter, on Pinter's opposition to the war in Iraq and annoyance with Tony Blair's government, by Mary Riddell, 8th November 1999 (take offline)

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