The Late Harold Pinter: Political Dramatist, Poet And Activist
by Basil Chiasson /
2017 / English / PDF
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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unpublished letters and drafts from the Pinter Archive in the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.
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unpublished letters and drafts from the Pinter Archive in the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.
