Harold PINTER
Born London, 10 October, 1930. Nobel Prize Winner 2005 . Died London, 24 December, 2008.
Stage Works
- The Room (produced 1957)
- The Birthday Party (produced Cambridge1958). 1959
- Sketches in One to Another (produced 1959). 1960.
- Sketches in Pieces of Eight (produced 1959).
- A Slight Ache (broadcast 1959; produced 1961)
- The Dumb Waiter (produced London 1959)
- The Dwarfs (broadcast 1960
- The Caretaker (produced London 1960). 1960;
- Night School (televised 1960).
- A Night Out (broadcast 1960; produced 1961)
- The Collection (televised 1961; produced London 1962)
- The Lover (televised 1963;: produced 1963)
- The Compartment (unreleased screenplay)
- Tea Party (televised 1965; produced 1968). 1965; revised version, 1968.
- The Homecoming (produced 1965). 1965; revised version, 1968.
- The Basement (televised 1967; produced 1968).
- Landscape (broadcast 1968; produced 1969). 1968
- Silence (produced 1969).
- Night, (produced 1969).
- Old Times (produced 1971). 1971.
- Monologue (televised 1973; produced 1973). 1973.
- No Man's Land (produced 1975). 1975.
- The Proust Screenplay: A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. 1977.
- Betrayal (produced London 1978). 1978.
- The Hothouse (also director: produced 1980). 1980; revised version (produced 1982), 1982.
- Family Voices (broadcast 1981; produced 1981). 1981.
- The Screenplay of The French Lieutenant's Woman. 1981.
- Precisely (sketch), in The Big One (produced 1983).
- One for the Road (also director: produced 1984)
- Mountain Language (also director: produced 1988). 1988.
- The Heat of the Day, adaptation of the novel by Elizabeth Bowen (televised 1989). 1989.
- Party Time (also director: produced 1991).
- Moonlight (produced 1993).
Screenplays:
- The Servant, 1963
- The Guest (The Caretaker), 1964
- The Pumpkin Eater, 1964
- The Quiller Memorandum, 1966
- Accident, 1967
- The Birthday Party, 1968
- The Go-Between, 1971
- The Homecoming, 1973
- The Last Tycoon, 1976
- The French Lieutenant's Woman, 1981
- Betrayal, 1982
- Turtle Diary, 1985
- The Trial, 1989
- Reunion, 1989
- The Handmaid's Tale, 1990
- The Comfort of Strangers, 1990
- The Remains of the Day, 1991
Radio Plays:
- A Slight Ache, 1959
- The Dwarfs, 1960
- A Night Out, 1960
- Landscape, 1968
- Family Voices, 1981
- Players, 1985
Television Plays:
- Night School, 1960;
- The Collection, 1961, revised version, 1978;
- The Lover, 1963;
- Tea Party, 1965;
- The Basement, 1967;
- Monologue, 1973;
- Langrishe, Go Down, from the novel by Aidan Higgins, 1978;
- Mountain Language, 1988;
- The Heat of the Day, 1989;
- Party Time, 1992
Bibliography: Pinter: A Bibliography: His Works and Occasional Writings with a Comprehensive Checklist of Criticism and Reviews of the London Productions by Rudiger Imhof, 1975;
Harold Pinter: An Annotated Bibliography by Steven H. Gale, 1978.
Critical Studies: (selection)
- Harold Pinter, by Arnold P. Hinchliffe, 1967, revised edition 1981
- Harold Pinter by Ronald Hayman, 1968, revised edition, 1980
- Harold Pinter by John Russell Taylor, 1969
- Stratagems to Uncover Nakedness: The Dramas of Harold Pinter by Lois Gordon, 1969
- Harold Pinter: The Poetics of Silence by James H. Hollis, 1970
- Harold Pinter by Alrene Sykes, 1970
- The Peopled Wound: The Plays of Harold Pinter by Martin Esslin, 1970, revised edition, as Pinter: A Study of His Plays, 1973, revised edition, 1977, revised edition, as Pinter: The Playwright, 1982
- The Dramatic World of Harold Pinter: Its Basis in Ritual by Katherine H. Burkman, 1971
- Pinter: A Collection of Critical Essays edited by Arthur Ganz, 1972
- The Plays of Harold Pinter: An Assessment by Simon Trussler, 1973
- The Pinter Problem by Austin E. Quigley, 1975
- The Dream Structure of Pinter's Plays: A Psychoanalytic Approach by Lucina Paquet Gabbard, 1976
- Where the Laughter Stops: Pinter's Tragi-Comedy, 1976, and Harold Pinter, 1982, both by Bernard F. Dukore
- Butter's Going Up: A Critical Analysis of Harold Pinter's Work by Steven H. Gale, 1977, and Harold Pinter: Critical Approaches edited by Gale, 1986
- Harold Pinter: A Critical Evaluation by Surendra Sahai, 1981
- Canters and Chronicles: The Use of Narrative in the Plays of Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter by Kristin Morrison, 1983
- Harold Pinter by Guido Almansi and Simon Henderson, 1983
- Pinter: The Player's Playwright by David T. Thompson, 1985
- Pinter's Comic Play by Elm Diamond, 1985
- Harold Pinter: You Never Heard Such Silence edited by Alan Bold, 1985
- Making Pictures: The Pinter Screenplays by Joanne Klein, 1985
- Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, and The Homecoming: A Casebook edited by Michael Scott, 1986
- Pinter's Female Portraits: A Study of Female Characters in the Plays of Pinter by Elizabeth Sakellaridou, 1988
- Harold Pinter: Towards a Poetics of His Plays by Volker Strunk, 1989
- Pinter in Play by Susan Merritt, 1990
- Harold Pinter: A Casebook by Lois Gordon, 1990
- File on Pinter by Malcolm Page, 1992.