Harold Pinter

Bibliography

Works in English

1. Plays (year of writing; year of publication; year of first performance)

The Room (1957). – in The Birthday Party, and Other Plays. – London : Methuen, 1960. – (Bristol, 1957)

The Birthday Party (1957). – in The Birthday Party, and Other Plays. – London : Methuen, 1960. – (Arts Theatre, Cambridge, 28 April 1958)

The Dumb Waiter (1957). – in The Birthday Party, and Other Plays. – London : Methuen, 1960. – (Kleines Haus, Frankfurt, February 1959)

A Slight Ache (1958). – in A Slight Ache and Other Plays. – London : Methuen, 1961. – (Broadcast 1959)

The Hothouse (1958). – in The Hothouse. – London : Eyre Methuen, 1980. – (Hampstead Theatre, London, 24 April 1980)

The Caretaker (1959). – in The Caretaker. – London : Methuen, 1960. – (Arts Theatre, London, 27 April 1960)

A Night Out (1959). – in Slight Ache and Other Plays. – London : Methuen, 1961. – (Broadcast on the BBC Third Programme, 1 March 1960)

Night School (1960). – in Tea Party and Other Plays. – London : Methuen, 1967. – (Broadcast on Associated Rediffusion Television, 21 July 1960)

The Dwarfs (1960). – in Slight Ache and Other Plays. – London : Methuen, 1961. – (Broadcast 1960; New Arts Theatre, London, 18 September 1963)

The Collection (1961). – in The Collection. – London : French, 1963 (1962?) ; in The Collection, and The Lover. – London : Methuen, 1963. – (Televised 1961)

The Lover (1962). – in The Collection, and The Lover. – London : Methuen, 1963. – (Televised 1961)

Tea Party (1964). – in Tea Party and Other Plays. – London : Methuen, 1967. – (Eastside Playhouse, New York, October 1968)

The Homecoming (1964). – in The Homecoming. – London : Methuen, 1965. – (Aldwych Theatre, London, 3 June 1965)

The Basement (1966). – in Tea Party and Other Plays. – London : Methuen, 1967. – (Televised 1967)

Landscape (1967). – in Landscape. – London : Pendragon Press, 1968 ; in Landscape, and Silence. – London : Methuen, 1969. – (Broadcast 1968)

Silence (1968). – in Landscape, and Silence. – London : Methuen, 1969. – (Aldwych Theatre, London, 2 July 1969)

Old Times (1970). – in Old Times. – London : Methuen, 1971. – (Aldwych Theatre, London, 1 June 1971)

Monologue (1972). – in Monologue. – London : Covent Garden Press, 1973. – (Televised on the BBC Television, 13 April 1973)

No Man’s Land (1974). – in No Man’s Land. – London : Methuen, 1975. – (Old Vic, London 23 April, 1975)

Betrayal (1978). – in Betrayal. – London : Eyre Methuen, 1978. – (National Theatre, London, November 1978)

Family Voices (1980). – in Family Voices. – London : Next Editions, 1981. – (Broadcast on Radio 3, 22 January 1981)

Other Places (1982). – in Other Places : Three Plays. – London : Methuen, 1982. – (Cottesloe Theatre, London, October 1982)

A Kind of Alaska (1982). – in A Kind of Alaska. – London : French, 1982 ; in Other Places : Three Plays. – London : Methuen, 1982. – (Cottesloe Theatre, London, October 1982)

Victoria Station (1982). – in Victoria Station. – London : French, 1982 ; in Other Places : Three Plays. – London : Methuen, 1982. – (Cottesloe Theatre, London, October 1982)

One for the Road (1984). – in One for the Road. – London : Methuen, 1984. – (Lyric Theatre Studio, Hammersmith, March 1984)

Mountain Language (1988). – in Mountain Language. – London : French, 1988 ; in Mountain Language. – London : Faber, 1988. – (National Theatre, London, 20 October 1988)

The New World Order (1991). – in Granta (no 37), Autumn 1991. – (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, 19 July 1991)

Party Time (1991). – in Party Time. – London : Faber, 1991. – (Almeida Theatre, London, 31 October 1991)

Moonlight (1993). – in Moonlight. – London : Faber, 1993. – (Almeida Theatre, London, 7 September 1993)

Ashes to Ashes (1996). – in Ashes to Ashes. – London : Faber, 1996. – (Royal Court at the Ambassadors Theatre, London, 12 September 1996)

Celebration (1999). – in Celebration. – London : Faber, 2000. – (Almeida Theatre, London, 16 March 2000)

Remembrance of Things Past (2000). – in Remembrance of Things Past. – London : Faber, 2000. – (Cottesloe Theatre, London, 23 November, 2000)

2. Additional

The Proust Screenplay : À la recherche du temps perdu / by Harold Pinter, with the collaboration of Joseph Losey and Barbara Bray. – New York : Grove Press, 1977

Poems and Prose 1949 –1977. – London : Methuen, 1978

The Dwarfs : a novel. – London : Faber, 1990

Various Voices : Poetry, Prose, Politics, 1948–1998. – London : Faber, 1998

Collected Screenplays. 1. – London : Faber, 2000. – Content : The Servant, The Pumpkin Eater, The Quiller Memorandum, The Accident, The Last Tycoon, Langrishe Go Down

Collected Screenplays. 2. – London : Faber, 2000. – Content : The Go-Between ; The Proust Screenplay ; Victory ; Turtle Diary ; Reunion

Collected Screenplays. 3. – London : Faber, 2000. – Content : The French Lieutenant’s Woman ; The Heat of the Day ; The Comfort of Strangers ; The Trial ; The Dreaming Child

The Disappeared and Other Poems. – London : Enitharmon, 2002

Press Conference. – London : Faber, 2002

War : [Eight Poems and One Speech]. – London : Faber, 2003

Death etc. – New York : Grove Press, 2005

The Essential Pinter . – New York : Grove Press, 2006

Critical studies (a selection)

Hayman, Ronald, Harold Pinter. – London : Heinemann, 1968

Esslin, Martin, The Peopled Wound : the Plays of Harold Pinter – London : Methuen, 1970

Hollis, James Russell, Harold Pinter : the Poetics of Silence. – Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Ill. U.P., 1970

Hinchliffe, Arnold P., Harold Pinter. – Boston : Twayne, 1981

Dukore, Bernard Frank, Harold Pinter. – London : Macmillan, 1982

Harold Pinter : You Never Heard Such Silence / edited by Alan Bold. – London : Vision, 1985

Harold Pinter : Critical Approaches / edited by Steven H. Gale. – Rutherford : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 1986

Harold Pinter / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. – New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1987

The Pinter Review : Annual Essays / edited by Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. – Tampa, Fla : University of Tampa, 1987 –

Merritt, Susan Hollis, Pinter in Play : Critical Strategies and the Plays of Harold Pinter. – Durham : Duke University Press, 1990

Esslin, Martin, Pinter the Playwright. – London : Methuen, 1992

Gussow, Mel, Conversations with Pinter. – New York : Limelight Editions, 1994

Knowles, Ronald, Understanding Harold Pinter. – Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 1995

Regal, Martin S., Harold Pinter : a Question of Timing. – London : Macmillan, 1995

Billington, Michael, The Life and Work of Harold Pinter. – London : Faber, 1996

Jalote, Shri Ranjan, The Plays of Harold Pinter : a Study in Neurotic Anxiety. – New Delhi : Harman, 1996

Peacock, D. Keith, Harold Pinter and the New British Theatre. – Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997

Harold Pinter : a Celebration / introduced by Richard Eyre. – London : Faber, 2000

Prentice, Penelope, The Pinter Ethic : the Erotic Aesthetic. – New York : Garland, 2000

Pinter at 70 : a Caseboook / edited by Lois Gordon. – New York : Routledge, 2001

Gale, Steven H., Sharp Cut : Harold Pinter’s Screenplays and the Artistic Process. – Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, cop. 2003

The Art of Crime : the Plays and Films of Harold Pinter and David Mamet / edited by Leslie Kane. – New York : Routledge, 2004

Smith, Ian, Pinter in the Theatre. – London : Nick Hern, 2005. – New York : Routledge, 2004

Baker, William, & Ross, John C., Harold Pinter : a Bibliographical History. – London : The British Library ; New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, 2005

Batty, Mark, About Pinter : the Playwright and the Work. – London : Faber, 2005

Grimes, Charles, Harold Pinter’s Politics : a Silence Beyond Echo. – Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005

Fraser, Antonia, Must you go? : My Life With Harold Pinter. – London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010

Scolnicov, Hanna, The Experimental Plays of Harold Pinter. – Newark : University of Delaware Press, 2012

The Swedish Academy, 2013

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