Harold Pinter's Shakespeare - Charles Morton

Harold Pinter's Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Influence on the Work of Harold Pinter

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
134 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-18264-3 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
This book charts the impact of Shakespeare’s works on Harold Pinter’s career as a playwright.This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies.
This book charts the impact of Shakespeare’s works on Harold Pinter’s career as a playwright.

This exploration traces Shakespeare’s influence through Pinter’s pre-theatre writings (1950-1956), to his collaboration with Sir Peter Hall (starting properly at the RSC in 1962 and continuing until 1983), and a late, unpublished screenplay for an adaptation of The Tragedy of King Lear (2000). Adding to studies of playwrights such as Samuel Beckett and James Joyce as significant influences on Harold Pinter’s work, this study aims to highlight the significant and lasting impact that Shakespeare had both formatively and performatively on the playwright’s career. Through exploring this influence, Morton gains not only a greater understanding of the shaping of Pinter’s artistic outlook and how this affected his writing, but it also sheds light on the various forms of Shakespeare’s continued influence on new writing, and what can be gained from this.

This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies.

Charles Morton is a Lecturer in English Literature and Theatre at Wroxton College, Fairleigh Dickinson University, UK. His previous academic positions include appointments at Birmingham City University, Brunel University London, Newman University and the University of Birmingham. He earned a PhD in Shakespeare Studies from the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham.

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Chapter 1: Becoming Harold Pinter

3. Chapter 2: The director of my dreams

4. Chapter 3: Pinter’s Lear

5. Conclusion

6. Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Dramatik / Theater
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-032-18264-4 / 1032182644
ISBN-13 978-1-032-18264-3 / 9781032182643
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