Sunday, October 23, 2005

HAROLD PINTER


Harold Pinter was born on 10 october1930 in the London borough of Hackney At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was evacuated from London at the age of nine, returning when twelve. Pinter was met with the expressions of anti-Semitism, and has indicated its importance for his becoming a dramatist Harold Pinter is generally seen as the foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the 20th century. Pinter's drama was first perceived as a variation of absurd theatre, but has later more aptly been characterised as "comedy of menace".

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