A modernist tragicomedy, it tells the story of two hired assassins named. Thus, the book should be of equal significance to those encountering Pinter within the context of English Studies, drama, and performance. The Dumb Waiter is a 1960 one-act play by British playwright and actor Harold Pinter. The collection offers essays that approach The Dumb Waiter, from an interdisciplinary perspective and as both a literary and dramatic text. The collection is also concerned with the meaning of the play when assessed against other example’s of Pinter’s work, both dramatic and non-dramatic writing.Įach contributor shows a gift for presenting a complex argument in an accessible style, making this book an important resource for a wide range of readers, from undergraduates to postgraduates and specialist researchers. The essays range over issues of autobiography and theater, genre studies, and the impact of Pinter’s political activism on his dramatic production, among others. In the play, two hitmen named Gus and Ben wait for a target to show up. The interesting and provocative dialogues between established and emerging scholars featured here provide close readings of The Dumb Waiter, within relevant cultural and historical contexts and from a range of theoretical perspectives. The Dumb Waiter is an absurd, tragicomic, one-act play by Harold Pinter. This collection of essays focuses on one of Harold Pinter’s most popular and challenging plays, The Dumb Waiter, while addressing also a range of significant issues current in Pinter studies and which are applicable beyond this play.
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