WILLIAMS AND PINTER (REALISM AND ABSURDISM). Tennesee Williams (1911-1983) The most influential American playwright. Also poet, and novelist. Born in.

WILLIAMS AND PINTER (REALISM AND ABSURDISM)

Tennesee Williams (1911-1983) The most influential American playwright. Also poet, and novelist. Born in the South. One of the first openly gay American writers. Struggled with depression and fear of insanity throughout his entire life. Best-known plays: A Streetcar Named Desire (1947; Pulitzer Prize) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955; Pulitzer Prize) Several plays made into movies.

Lord Byrons Love Letter (1946) Who is Lord Byron? Dramatis personae (list of characters). Note the names. The meaning of stage directions. What happens in the play? What genre is this play?

DRAMA as a Dramatic Genre Drama means action. The two faces: Thalia, the Muse of comedy, and Melpomene, the Muse of tragedy. Drama in a narrow sense (as a genre) is a fusion of tragedy and comedy, or neither tragedy nor comedy. Appeared in late 19 th cent.

Harold Pinter (1930-2008) British dramatist, essayist, screenwriter, poet, actor, director, and sportsman (cricket player). Political loudmouth. The Nobel Prize winner (2005). Official website Official website

The Caretaker (1960) I went into a room and saw one person standing up and one person sitting down, and few weeks later I wrote The Room. I went into another room and saw two people sitting down, and a few years later I wrote The Birthday Party. I looked through a door into a third room and saw two people standing up and I wrote The Caretaker. Harold Pinter

The Caretaker The Theatre of the Absurd: represents the irrational world. Comedy of menace (compare to manners: play on words). Made into film in 1963. Made into film in 1963 Pinteresque characterized by halting dialogue, uncertainty of identity, and the air of menace.

The Caretaker The title Characters Setting Stage directions Language Symbolic details Themes Humour

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