Results for: books tagged ‘Modernism’
About Beckett: John Fletcher
In About Beckett Emeritus Professor John Fletcher has compiled a thorough and accessible volume that explains why Beckett’s work is so significant and enduring. Professor Fletcher first met Beckett in ... More
About Pinter: Mark Batty
In About Pinter, Mark Batty provides a critical study of the work of one of our most successful living dramatists. A wide variety of interviews with Harold Pinter and those ... More
All That Fall: Samuel Beckett
Mrs Rooney, old and unwieldy, is dragging herself towards the railway station on a Saturday lunchtime to meet her blind husband on his way back from the office, and guide ... More
Betrayal: Harold Pinter
The Birthday Party: Harold Pinter
Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958 ... More
The Caretaker: Harold Pinter
It was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success, and its production history since it was first performed in 1960 has established the work as a ... More
Celebration & The Room: Harold Pinter
A restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It's a celebration. Violent, wildly funny, Harold Pinter's new play displays a vivid zest for life.In The Room, Harold Pinter's first play, he reveals himself ... More
The Cocktail Party: T. S. Eliot
'Obviously something more than a successful play, it is the practical demonstration of a patently conceived theory of dramatic form, and as such of high historical interest.' Times Literary Supplement'Eliot ... More
Collected Poems: W. H. Auden
This edition includes all the poems that Auden wished to preserve, in a text that includes his final revisions, with corrections based on the latest research. In a new preface, ... More
Collected Shorter Plays: Samuel Beckett
This volume contains all of Beckett’s less-than-full-length works (or ‘Dramaticules’) for the stage, radio and television. Arranged in chronological order of composition, these shorter plays demonstrate the laconic means and ... More
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