Harold Pinter

Broschiertes Buch

The Caretaker

Beschreibung

This play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdown of communication, broadly in the tradition of the theatre of the absurds and this is demonstrated in both "The Caretaker" and "The Birthday Party".

Autor

Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 and they married in 1980. In 1995 he won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, awarded for a lifetime's achievement in literature. In 1996 he was given the Laurence Olivier Award for a lifetime's achievement in theatre. In 2002 he was made a Companion of Honour for services to literature. In 2005 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and, in the same year, the Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry and the Franz Kafka Award (Prague). In 2006 he was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize and, in 2007, the highest French honour, the Légion d'honneur. He died in December 2008.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 125
• Erscheinungstermin: März 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 131mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 123g
• ISBN-13: 9780571160792
• ISBN-10: 0571160794
• Artikelnr.: 11370372