Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party (1958) and The Dumb Waiter (1960) or the intermingling of farce and menace
First used by the theatre critic Irving Wardle in a 1958 article, the expression comedy of menace has become a catch-all phrase systematically applied to Harold Pinter’s plays. Yet Wardle has offered a specific thematic and aesthetic definition of the genre based on the motif of the malevolent intru...
| Published in: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2016-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/3414 |