The Pinter Ethic

Penelope Prentice is Professor of English at D'Youville College. She is an award-winning poet and playwright whose works include Thriller, Michael Tyro, and How toSeduce Your Husband.

General Editor's Note Preface The Pinter Ethic: Overview Harold Pinter: Biography Part 1 The Early Work - Power as a Private Affair 1. Introduction: Pinter's Achievement 2. The Birthday party : choice, Action and Responsibility - The Pinter Ethic Defined 3. The Room and The Revue Sketches : The Ethic in the Early Work - Dominance and Destruction 4. The Slight Ache as Fulcrum: Leveling Dominant and Subservient Roles - The Triumph of Vitality and Truth 5. A Night Out : Vitality Vitiated 6. The Hothouse : Madness and Violence 7. The Caretaker :Dominance and Subservience Equated - The Human Connection 8. Night School : Possible Justice Without Love 9. The Dwarfs : Dominance as Betrayal 10. The Servant : Paradigmatic Powerplays 11. The Collection and The Lover : Identity Gained by Deliberate Pretense 12. The Pumpkin Eater : Married Love and Justice 13. The Homecoming : Dominance, Choice, and the Ethic Revised 14. The Quiller Memorandum : Torture Without Threat 15. Tea Party and The Basement : The Illusive Qualities of Power 16. Accident : Death, Desire and Birth Part 2 The Liminal Play of the Middle Period 16. Landscape, Silence and Night : Where Powerplays Vanish 17. The Go-Between : freedom Reborn 18. Old Times : Triple Dominance 19. Langrishe, Go Down, A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu: Proust Screenplay , and Monologue : Remembrances of Things Past 20. The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Last Tycoon :Love Gained and Lost 21. Brtrayal : The Past Regained Part 3 This is the End My Friend, THe Lovedeath Apocalyptic Vision Revised: Love, Justice and Power Reclaimed 22. Precisely and Family Voices : Loveeath 23. A Kind of Alska : Idenitty Unresolved 24. Victoria Station : Love and POwer Revisited 25. One for the Road : The End of the Road 26. MOuntain Language : Torture Revisited 27. Turtle Diary, Vicotry, The handmaid's tale, Reunion, The Heat of the day, The Comfort of Strangers, The Remains of the Day , and The Trial : The Screenplays of the 1980s and Early 1990s 28. Party Time and The New World Order : Love and justice Revisited 29. Moonlight : Lovedeath Wedded 30 Some Conclusions on Love, Justice and Power in the Pinter Ethic: The Public Consequences of Private Acts Selected Bibliography Index - Form and Innovation