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English Year 2021
Table of contents :
Part One: (Re)situating Pinter, Critical Orientations
1 Pinter's Modernism(s) Revisited: A Drama Reliant upon Prose
Basil Chiasson (Western University, Canada)
2 The Theatre of the Absurd as Professional Network in Harold Pinter's Early Career
Harry Derbyshire (University of Greenwich, UK)
3 The Elite Pinter and the Pinter Elite
James Hudson (University of Lincoln, UK)
4 'Too Much of a Modern?' Pinter's Jewishness
Eckart Voigts (TU Braunschweig, Germany)
5 Pinter's Connections with the Middle East
Ibrahim Yerebakan (Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Turkey)
Part Two: Pinter as Playwright, Playwrights and Pinter
6 'An insistence in my mind': Pinter's Writing Ethic
Steve Waters (University of East Anglia, UK)
7 Beyond the Mainstage: Harold Pinter at the Royal Shakespeare Company
Catriona Fallow (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
8 Theatre's Dark Matter: Pinter's 'Staging' of Systemic Violence and its Influence in Contemporary British Theatre
Alex Watson (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
9 Faith, Telos and Failure: Pinter, Butterworth, Kelly
David Pattie (University of Birmingham, UK)
10 The Crimpesque: Pinter's Legacy in the Theatre of Martin Crimp
Maria Elena Capitani (University of Parma, Italy)
Part Three: Conversations with Collaborators
11 Interviews