Abstract
Harold Pinter emerges from a survey of critical responses to his work as being at once the most praised and the most reviled of contemporary British playwrights. The present study is an attempt to shed some light on some of the problems confronting the reader of his works through approaching his plays as exemplars of the contemporary comic vision.
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Summary of doctoral thesis, completed in 1979
Harold Pinter emerges from a survey of critical responses to his work as being at once the most praised and the most reviled of contemporary British play wrights
This realism, 28 is of a particular type which induces a sense of dislocation in the audience, and which has induced a number of critics to regard Pinter as an exponent of the Absurd school
Summary
Summary of doctoral thesis, completed in 1979. Prof. In the critical consideration of comic theory a certain progression can be observed: the discussion starts with a consideration of comedy and society (as this aspect of comedy is generally considered to be the most inviolate of the permanent ways of comedy) and progresses to a consideration of comedy and cosmic homelessness; comedy and the despair of contemporary man (this aspect being the most recent addition to the variable superstructure).
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