Pinter: The Playwright (A Methuen paperback)

by Martin Esslin (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1982

  $6.94

  Published to coincide with Pinter's 70th birthday, the sixth edition of Martin Esslin's acclaimed text has been revised and expanded to cover his more recent works. The book presents a comprehensive survey, spanning the whole of Harold Pinter's writing career - from his cooly received debut The Birthday Party , to his works that earned him the moniker Britain's best living playwright .

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $4.77

  In 1958 The Birthday Party was dismissed by all but a few critics and closed after one week's run in London. Since then Harold Pinter has come to be acknowledged as our best living playwright (Irving Wardle, The Times) Martin Esslin's study of Pinter's plays has become a standard work since its publication in 1970. This sixth, revised edition - published to mark Pinter's 70th birthday and updated to cover his most recent plays, Moonlight, Ashes to Ashes and Celebration - offers a comprehensive survey of the whole span of Harold Pinter's writing career by one of the most distinguished commentators on modern theatre. It will certainly not be the last book on Pinter, but seems bound to remain one of the best John Russell Taylor Holds its place as the most straightforwardly useful account of Pinter's work to date Times Literary Supplement

• New

  Hardcover
  2000

  $32.13

  In 1958 The Birthday Party was dismissed by all but a few critics and closed after one week's run in London. Since then Harold Pinter has come to be acknowledged as our best living playwright (Irving Wardle, The Times) Martin Esslin's study of Pinter's plays has become a standard work since its publication in 1970. This sixth, revised edition - published to mark Pinter's 70th birthday and updated to cover his most recent plays, Moonlight, Ashes to Ashes and Celebration - offers a comprehensive survey of the whole span of Harold Pinter's writing career by one of the most distinguished commentators on modern theatre. It will certainly not be the last book on Pinter, but seems bound to remain one of the best John Russell Taylor Holds its place as the most straightforwardly useful account of Pinter's work to date Times Literary Supplement