Harold Pinter Plays 3

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This revised third volume of Harold Pinter’s work includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man’s Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a short story. It also contains the speech given by Pinter in 1970 on being awarded the German Shakespeare Prize. The Homecoming ā€˜Of all Harold Pinter’s major plays, The Homecoming has the most powerful narrative line… You are fascinated, lured on, sucked into the vortex.’ Sunday Telegraph ā€˜The most intense expression of compressed violence to be found anywhere in Pinter’s plays.’ The Times Old Times ā€˜A rare quality of high tension is evident, revealing in Old Times a beautifully controlled and expressive formality that has seldom been achieved since the plays of Racine.’ Financial Times ā€˜Harold Pinter’s poetic, Proustian Old Times has the inscrutability of a mysterious picture, and the tension of a good thriller.’ Independent No Man’s Land ā€˜The work of our best living playwright in its command of the language and its power to erect a coherent structure in a twilight zone of confusion and dismay.’ The Times