HAROLD PINTER,THE PLAYWRIGHT AND HIS PLAY, 'BETRAYAL' !

HAROLD PINTER Was A Dramatist Of Genius Who Had Moulded The Course Of Play Writing In 20th-Cent. In The British Literature !
With His Gifts Of Terseness Plus Brevity ,PINTER PRESENTS THE POST WAR SOCIETY THAT WAS ON THE PRECIPICE OR IN THE UTTER ANARCHY OF TRANSITION WHEN THE OLD VALUES WERE FALLING FAST AND THE NEW CULTURE WITHITS ABSURDITIES PLUS HOPES OF BETTERMENT KNOCKING STEADILY BUT IN A RATHER SHARP SOUND !
Harold Pinter Got An International Acclaim Much Earlier And Was Awarded The Nobel Much Later In 2005.
'THE CARETAKER' , 'THE HOMECOMING' , 'THE BIRTHDAY PARTY' Are Certainly Amongst TheTop Dramas Of 20th-Cent.
It Is Widely Believed That After Samuel Beckett,Harold Pinter Happens To Be The Greatest Dramatist In English Literature.
Pinter Wrote,Quite Later, A DramaThat Had Caused A Debate Regarding The Character-Sketching : Whether Personal Projection Or Impersonal Approach Be Authentic In Sketching A Character In A Work Of Art?
'Theory Of Impersonality' Is ,No Doubt, Considered As The Most Authentic Technique In Modern Literature,Yet,That's Not The CaseEverytime And Some Personal Strands Of A Writer's Life Get A Form And Reflects Through A Character In A Piece Of Art !
The Name Of That Later Phase Drama Is - 'BETRAYAL' And Pinter's Extra-marital Affairs During His First Marriage Became The Central Theme !
Critics Opined Differently ,Though!
In 2010, Pinter's Second Wife, ANTONIA FRASER, Had Penned A Memoir, 'MUST WE GO' , And She Had Clarified That The Play, 'BETRAYAL' Was Very Much Autobiographical And She Had Also Talked At Length About The 'ART OF CHARACTERIZATION' !
PINTER And The American Playwright Plus Nobel Awardee,ARTHUR MILLER ,Were Great Friends And While Reading Pinter's , 'BETRAYAL' ,One Can't Help But Recall Miller's Autobiographical Play, 'AFTER THEFALL' -(based upon Miller's Break-Up With Marilyn Munroe) !
Well, Yesterday Was HAROLD PINTER'S BIRTHDAY And It Would Prompt Me To Leaf Through His Works !
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