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The Aspect of Memory in Harold Pinter's 'Old Times'

Lydia Prexl
The Aspect of Memory in Harold Pinter s Old Times Book PDF

Author : Lydia Prexl
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640345236

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Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Mannheim (Anglistisches Seminar), course: New British Drama, language: English, abstract: It is widely accepted that memories reconstruct the past: We need individual memories in order to experience biographical continuity. Without the episodic (or autobiographical) memory, it would be impossible for us to link our individual past to ourselves. The strong connexion between memory and the past is a very prominent topic in contempo-rary British fiction and the significance of memory is discussed in many literary works. One of these works is Harold Pinter's play Old Times. Together with the plays Landscape and Silence and the sketch Night, these works have often been referred to as 'memory plays' because they "focus on the past". In all these plays, Pinter extensively investigates the possibilities of recreating the past as well as the problematic function of memory. [...] Given the fact that even the author himself has difficulties to summarize his works, it is even more difficult for the viewer, especially as Pinter does not write "with an audience in mind" . Though he is convinced "that what happens in (his) plays could happen anywhere, at any time, in any place, although the events may seem unfamiliar at first glance," the action in Pinter's plays is always ambiguous and the plot a framework of contradictions, multilayered statements and silences. So, what is Pinter writing about? He only gives us one clue: It is "not (about) the weasel under the cabinet. This paper aims to answer the question above. In the following, I will look at the sketch Night first. Then I want to concentrate on the topic of memory in the plays Landscape and Silence. In the main part, I will discuss the significance of memory in Old Times. As we will see, Pinter demonstrates that memory operates on a variety of levels. In all plays, memory is unreliable and c

The Aspect of Memory in Harold Pinter’s 'Old Times'

Lydia Prexl
The Aspect of Memory in Harold Pinter s Old Times Book PDF

Author : Lydia Prexl
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783640345397

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The Aspect of Memory in Harold Pinter’s 'Old Times' by Lydia Prexl Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Mannheim (Anglistisches Seminar), course: New British Drama, language: English, abstract: It is widely accepted that memories reconstruct the past: We need individual memories in order to experience biographical continuity. Without the episodic (or autobiographical) memory, it would be impossible for us to link our individual past to ourselves. The strong connexion between memory and the past is a very prominent topic in contempo-rary British fiction and the significance of memory is discussed in many literary works. One of these works is Harold Pinter’s play Old Times. Together with the plays Landscape and Silence and the sketch Night, these works have often been referred to as ‘memory plays’ because they „focus on the past”. In all these plays, Pinter extensively investigates the possibilities of recreating the past as well as the problematic function of memory. [...] Given the fact that even the author himself has difficulties to summarize his works, it is even more difficult for the viewer, especially as Pinter does not write “with an audience in mind” . Though he is convinced “that what happens in (his) plays could happen anywhere, at any time, in any place, although the events may seem unfamiliar at first glance,” the action in Pinter’s plays is always ambiguous and the plot a framework of contradictions, multilayered statements and silences. So, what is Pinter writing about? He only gives us one clue: It is “not (about) the weasel under the cabinet. This paper aims to answer the question above. In the following, I will look at the sketch Night first. Then I want to concentrate on the topic of memory in the plays Landscape and Silence. In the main part, I will discuss the significance of memory in Old Times. As we will see, Pinter demonstrates that memory operates on a variety of levels. In all plays, memory is unreliable and can be reshaped according to one’s present needs. It can be a means of comfort and security, as in Night. It can separate people by providing them with the possibility to live in the past and to avoid confrontation in the present, as in Landscape and Silence. In Old Times, the function of memory is clearly the most complex. Here, it is used as a weapon in a battle for positions in which impression man-agement rules the battlefield.

Eroding the Language of Freedom

Farah Ali
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Author : Farah Ali
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351625555

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Eroding the Language of Freedom by Farah Ali Pdf

Let down by the uncertainties of memory, language, and their own family units, the characters in Harold Pinter’s plays endure persistent struggles to establish their own identities. Eroding the Language of Freedom re-examines how identity is shaped in these plays, arguing that the characters’ failure to function as active members of society speaks volumes to Pinter’s ideological preoccupation with society’s own inadequacies. Pinter described himself as addressing the state of the world through his plays, and in the linguistic games, emotional balancing acts, and recurring scenarios through which he put his characters, readers and audiences can see how he perceived that world.

Old Times

Harold Pinter
Old Times Book PDF

Author : Harold Pinter
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571301003

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Old Times by Harold Pinter Pdf

Old Times was first presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 1 June 1971. It was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in July 2004. ' Old Times is a joyous, wonderful play that people will talk about as long as we have a theatre.' New York Times 'What am I writing about? Not the weasel under the cocktail cabinet . . . I can sum up none of my plays. I can describe none of them, except to say: that is what happened. This is what they said. That is what they did.' Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

Graham Saunders
Harold Pinter Book PDF

Author : Graham Saunders
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000890945

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Harold Pinter by Graham Saunders Pdf

Harold Pinter provides an up-to-date analysis and reappraisal concerning the work of one of the most studied and performed dramatists in the world. Drawing extensively from The Harold Pinter Archive at the British Library as well as reviews and other critical materials, this book offers new insights into previously established views about his work. The book also analyses and reappraises specific key historical and contemporary productions, including a selection of Pinter’s most significant screenplays. In particular, this volume seeks to assess Pinter’s critical reputation and legacy since his death in 2008. These include his position as a political writer and political activist – from disassociation and neutrality on the subject until relatively late in his career when his drama sought to explicitly address questions of political dissent and torture by totalitarian regimes. The book revisits some familiar territories such as Pinter’s place as a British absurdist and the role memory plays in his work, but it also sets out to explore new territories such as Pinter’s changing attitudes towards gender in the light of #MeToo and queer politics and how in particular a play such as The Caretaker (1960) through several key productions has brought the issues of race into sharper focus. Part of the Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatist series, Harold Pinter provides an essential and accessible guide to the dramatists’ work.

The Theatre of Harold Pinter

Mark Taylor-Batty
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Author : Mark Taylor-Batty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408175323

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The Theatre of Harold Pinter by Mark Taylor-Batty Pdf

The plays of the late Nobel laureate Harold Pinter have formed part of the canon of world theatre since the 1960s. Frequently revived on the professional stage, and studied on almost every Theatre Studies course, his importance and influence is hard to overestimate. This Critical Companion offers an assessment of Pinter's entire body of work for the stage, appraising his skill as a dramatist and considering his impact and legacy. Through a clear focus on issues of theatricality and the effect of the plays in performance The Theatre of Harold Pinter considers Pinter's chief narrative concerns and offers a unifying theme through which over four decades of work may be understood. Plays are considered in themed chapters that follow the chronological sequence of work, illuminating the development of his aesthetic and concerns. The volume features too a series of essays from other leading scholars presenting different critical perspectives on the work, including Harry Burton on Pinter's early drama; Ann Hall on Revisiting Pinter's Women; Chris Megson on Pinter's Memory Plays of the 1970s, and Basil Chiasson on Neoliberalism and Democracy.

Harold Pinter

William Baker
Harold Pinter Book PDF

Author : William Baker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780826499707

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Harold Pinter by William Baker Pdf

A succinct examination of Nobel prize-winner, Harold Pinter's creative output, providing introduction to drama (including theatre, film, TV and radio) and Pinter's letters prose and journalism.

The Plays of Harold Pinter

Andrew Wyllie,Catherine Rees
The Plays of Harold Pinter Book PDF

Author : Andrew Wyllie,Catherine Rees
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137315670

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The Plays of Harold Pinter by Andrew Wyllie,Catherine Rees Pdf

This Reader's Guide synthesises the key criticism on Pinter's work over the last half century. Andrew Wyllie and Catherine Rees examine critical approaches and reactions to the major plays, charting the controversies which have arisen in response to Pinter's critiques of political and sexual issues. They consider criticism from the press and academics, on the themes of Absurdism, politics and gender identity. By placing this criticism in its historical context, this guide illustrates a transition from bewilderment and outrage to affection, fascination - and more outrage.

Pinter's Odd Man Out

Sidney Homan
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Author : Sidney Homan
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838752381

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Pinter's Odd Man Out by Sidney Homan Pdf

"Pinter's Odd Man Out records Sidney Homan's experience directing the playwright's Old Times for both stage and television. His most commercially successful play, and surely one of his best, no other work of Pinter's has generated more critical and scholarly commentary - or more varied, sometimes conflicting readings." "In the two opening chapters Homan surveys the theatrical and critical history of the play before describing the "generic" world of Pinter that provides the context of Old Times: secluded rooms, their occupants, and the visitor who, in seeking entrance, challenges the room's exclusive yet deceptive serenity; the outside and the threat it poses; the subtext pressing on the dialogue; the power of the past and perception; the "presence" of the play itself; characters who function as artists; the issue of gender; mother and father figures; and the silence of Pinter's pauses." "Homan then describes his company's preparations for the performance, ranging from the director's concept, the set, props, costumes, lighting, and music to blocking and the rehearsal period. After his own account of the stage production and the ways in which the audience "taught" the performers through their reactions to and discoveries about the play, Homan turns to his actors (Stephanie Dugan, Thomas Pender, and Sandra Langsner) who, in their own words, describe how they wrestled with the characters of Kate, Deeley, and Anna from rehearsals to performance." "A chapter on "The Camera as Guest" records the experience of filming the stage play. Here the focus is on the technological and aesthetic differences between the media of television and the stage, and what effect such differences had on the filmed version of Old Times. To what degree does the camera allow the director to assert more control? What changes in blocking, set, and lighting were required?" "In an appendix Homan looks at Carol Reed's 1950s film Odd Man Out, which figures prominently in Old Times, and which may have been a source (in a highly flexible use of that term) for the play." "On the surface, Pinter's Odd Man Out concentrates on a single play. In reality, it is about the ways in which people in the theatre approach a production, the process they go through from rehearsals to opening night, and the complex interaction among playwright, director, actors, and audience. It also raises the issue of what happens when a work intended for the stage is translated to another medium, such as television. If the book at times suggests that the worlds of the scholar and the theatre professional are different, indeed incompatible in some ways, it also shows how the two professions can learn from each other."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

New Playwriting Strategies

Paul C. Castagno
New Playwriting Strategies Book PDF

Author : Paul C. Castagno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135866532

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New Playwriting Strategies by Paul C. Castagno Pdf

New Playwriting Strategies offers a fresh and dynamic approach to playwriting that will be welcomed by teachers and aspiring playwrights alike.

Memory in Play

A. Favorini
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Author : A. Favorini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230617162

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Memory in Play by A. Favorini Pdf

This innovative study examines the role of memory in the history of theatre and drama. Favorini analyzes issues of memory in self-construction, collective memory, the clash of memory and history and even explores what the work of cognitive scientists can teach us about brain function and our response to drama.

A Holistic Perspective on Harold Pinter's Drama

Aslı Tekinay
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Author : Aslı Tekinay
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527551633

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A Holistic Perspective on Harold Pinter's Drama by Aslı Tekinay Pdf

This book provides a holistic approach to Harold Pinter’s plays, from his first play, The Room (1957), to his last play, Celebration (1999). The book is divided into three chapters, organized thematically. The first chapter discusses the early plays—the so-called comedies of menace—concerning the central tropes of secluded settings, intrusion from the outside, and disintegration of the self. The next chapter analyzes Pinter’s memory plays, concentrating on how characters shelter themselves from intrusions through silences and lies. The third chapter examines power games and abuse of power in political plays. The book contributes to the field of Pinter studies by pursuing the thematic, linguistic, and formal elements integral to his aesthetic productions, and delineates the properties that serve as constants in Pinter’s dramatic oeuvre, thus justifying the term Pinteresque: pauses and silences, subtext, anxiety, violence, menace, vulnerability, victimization, intrusion, and power games. The discussions highlight the presence of a solid foundation for his drama—such as his conviction that the past is in the present—and connect all the plays to one another.

Pinter's Female Portraits

Elizabeth Sakellaridou
Pinter s Female Portraits Book PDF

Author : Elizabeth Sakellaridou
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0389207470

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Pinter's Female Portraits by Elizabeth Sakellaridou Pdf

The book traces the development of Pinter's female characters both as dramatis personae and as theatrical functionaries. It explores a new exciting aspect of Pinter's work in the domain of character portrayal, and it supplies a kaleidoscopic view of Pinter criticism to date at home and abroad.

Harold Pinter

Guido Almansi,Simon Henderson
Harold Pinter Book PDF

Author : Guido Almansi,Simon Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000292138

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Harold Pinter by Guido Almansi,Simon Henderson Pdf

First published in 1983, Harold Pinter is an original study into the work of one of Britain’s foremost dramatists. The book celebrates Pinter’s elusiveness as a writer. It considers his position as a specifically contemporary writer of the post-modernist tradition, and explores his use of language as a sophisticated means of non-communication, acting as a smokescreen behind which his characters lie. The book presents the language games used by Pinter according to their strategic importance, beginning with his earlier works and suggesting a chronological progression. It also discusses Pinter’s later developments, such as the screenplay for The French Lieutenant’s Woman. Harold Pinter is ideal for anyone with an interest in the work and literary techniques of contemporary writers and dramatists.

New Playwriting Strategies

Paul C. Castagno
New Playwriting Strategies Book PDF

Author : Paul C. Castagno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781136630804

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New Playwriting Strategies by Paul C. Castagno Pdf

New Playwriting Strategies has become a canonical text in the study and teaching of playwriting, offering a fresh and dynamic insight into the subject. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition explores and highlights the wide spread of new techniques that form contemporary theatre writing, as well as their influence on other dramatic forms. Paul Castagno builds on the innovative plays of Len Jenkin, Mac Wellman, and the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin to investigate groundbreaking new techniques from a broad range of contemporary dramatists, including Sarah Ruhl, Suzan Lori-Parks and Young Jean Lee. New features in this edition include an in-depth study of the adaptation of classical texts in contemporary playwright and the utilizing new technologies, such as YouTube, Wikipedia and blogs to create alternative dramatic forms. The author’s step-by-step approach offers the reader new models for: narrative dialogue character monologue hybrid plays This is a working text for playwrights, presenting a range of illuminating new exercises suitable for everyone from the workshop student to the established writer. New Playwriting Strategies is an essential resource for anyone studying and writing drama today.