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Description: ISBN 0571160808 / Author: Harold Pinter / Genre: Drama / Poetry / Criticism / When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings ... more
The Homecoming - Harold Pinter ... his wife Ruth to visit London and his family, he finds himself prey to old conflicts. But now it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family's struggle for supremacy. The playwright's other works include The Birthday Party and Old Times.

Newest Review: ... the era. Max is the widower Father of the family, when he was worked he was a butcher but now he is retired and he takes ... more

 ... care of the house and his sons. ( Max is seventy ) Sam is Max's brother, he is a fussy little man, a private chauffeur who drives a a Humber Super Snipe. Teddy is the oldest son, he is a Professor of Philosophy ( mid thirties and at the beginning of the play he is living in America with his wife Ruth ) Lenny is the middle son ( in his early thirties ) Lenny is a pimp. Joey is the youngest son, he is in his middle twenties. Joey is a demolition man but he would love to be a boxer. Ruth is the only daughter-in-law, Rut...more

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Premium Review The Homecoming - Harold Pinter: The Homecoming. (1028 words)
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Harold Pinter was born in East London in 1930. Pinter is one of our most celebrated playwrights as well as being an accomplished screenwriter, actor, poet and director. Harold Pinter was the only child of Jack and Francis Pinter, a middle class Jewish family that had Polish ancestry. Pinter excelled at English , he could act and from an early age he enjoyed writing poetry. Pinter studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art only to drop out after the first year but this did not stop him from achieving great heights and he became the author of 15 sketches and 29 plays. Pinter wrote `The Homecoming` in 1964 and by 1967 it had received no less than ...  Read the complete review

 

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