The Late Harold Pinter
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The Late Harold Pinter

Political Dramatist, Poet and Activist

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Late Harold Pinter

Political Dramatist, Poet and Activist

About this book

This volume is the first to provide a book-length study of Pinter's overtly political activity. With chapters on political drama, poetry, and speeches, it charts a consistent tension between aesthetics and politics through Pinter's later career and defines the politics of the work in terms of a pronounced sensory dimension and capacity to affect audiences. The book brings to light unpublished letters and drafts from the Pinter Archive in the British Library and draws his political poems and speeches, which have previously been overshadowed by his plays, into the foreground. Intended for students, instructors, and researchers in drama and theatre, performance studies, literature, and media studies, this book celebrates Pinter's later life and work by discerning a coherent political voice and project and by registering the complex ways that project troubles the divide between aesthetics and politics.

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Table of contents

  1. The Late Harold Pinter
  2. 1 Introduction: On the Meaning of Late, Affect, and Aestheticizing Politics
  3. 2 The ‘Early’ Years: A ‘More Precisely Political’ Drama
  4. 3 Political Drama through the 1990s and After: Dialogue Is the Thing
  5. 4 The Political Verse: A Poetics of Force
  6. 5 A ‘Citizen of the World’: Aestheticizing Politics
  7. 6 The Nobel Lecture: Artist and Citizen Converge
  8. Bibliography
  9. Index