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 Betrayal - Harold Pinter
Description: ISBN 0571160824 / Author: Harold Pinter / Genre: Drama / Poetry / Criticism / Part of a collection of Harold Pinter's works, this is a ... more  Betrayal - Harold Pinter ... comedy of sexual manners in which Pinter captures the psyche's sly manoeuvres for self-respect with sardonic forgiveness. Written in 1978 by the author of The Caretaker, The Lover, The Homecoming and The Birthday Party.Newest Review: ... the reader or playgoer aware of all those details is one of the methods that add to the complexity of what might otherwise ... more ... look like nothing but a simple plot.
The play opens in the year 1977 then it goes back in time in the following scenes to the years 1975, 1973 and 1971 to shed more light on how the revelation took place, and finally to the year 1968 to find out how the betrayal itself started. The beauty of this play lies in the fact that so many complications are unveiled in very few words and numerous pauses and silences. Some of the questions tackled include: the difference between the sexes, male friendship, the distincti...more |
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Night Out: Play (Acting Edition) by Harold Pinter - Samuel French
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The Collection (Acting Edition) by Harold Pinter - Samuel French
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Betrayal - Harold Pinter: Husband and Wife... in a "Laughing Mediterranean Way" (1019 words)
by sottovoce1982 - written on 29.11.07 (Very useful, 172 readings)
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Betrayal (1978) by Harold Pinter (1930- ) Do you think you know how complicated extramarital relationships can be? Well, what Harold Pinter is trying to tell you in this play is that you have absolutely no idea. The story involves two families: Robert, his wife Emma, and their two children; a boy and a girl, and Jerry, his wife Judith, and their two children who happen to be a boy and a girl as well. The only characters we meet are Emma, Robert and Jerry, and the main betrayal in question is the one that involves Emma and Jerry's affair although other forms of unfaithfulness take place. Falling in love and having an affair with the spouse's ...
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