List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Chronology
Note onthetext
Introduction
Part 1:Text and context
1 Pinter,politics and postmodernism(1)
2 Pinter and the 1950S
3 The sacred joke:comedy and politics in Pinter''s early plays
4 Tales of the city:some places and voices in Pinter''s plays
5 Pinter and twentieth—century drama
6 Harold Pinter,screenwriter:an overview
Part 2:Pinter and performance
7 Body language in Pinter''s plays
8 Harold Pinter as director
9 Directing the plays of Harold Pinter
1O Pinter in Russia
11 Pinter and Ireland
Part 3:Reactions to Pinter
12 Pinter''s sexual politics
13 Pinter and the critics
14 Pinter as celebrity
15 Pinter,politics and postmodernism(2)
16 Afterword:Harold Pinter and cricket
Bibliography
Index