Harold Pinter

In Harold Pinter's The Homecoming Max, the domestic tyrant, says of his tearaway days with his friend Mac: "We'd walk into a place, the whole room'd stand up, they'd make way to let us pass. You never heard such silence." Pinter's plays make a similarly strong impact.By general agreement Pinter's dramatic output is uniquely expressive. Though the influence of Beckett and others has been cited, Pinter remains a writer with a tone so unusual it has brought the epithet "Pinteresque" into being. Pinter himself detests the term, and it is time his art was assessed in depth; hence the reason for this volume which brings together essays by various authorities on Pinter's work.