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SAMUEL BECKETT AND HAROLD PINTER’S PLAYS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS IN VISION OF LIFE AND INTRICACY OF LANGUAGE

    1 Author(s):  DR. MEENA KUMARI

Vol -  5, Issue- 2 ,         Page(s) : 511 - 518  (2014 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

Samuel Beckett (1906-89) and Harold Pinter (1930-2008) are of the two major playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd, in twentieth century. Both the playwrights emerged out of the disillusionment of the post World War II, wrote on similar themes, took conventions of traditional drama to pieces, won Nobel prize for their contribution to the world of theatre, and above all, made an indelible impression on the canvas of playwriting to be followed by a number of writers in the times to come.

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1 Martin Esslin, “Introduction”,  Absurd Drama (Middlesex: Penguin, 1985), p. 13.
2 Samuel Beckett, “Endgame”, Samuel Beckett: The Complete Dramatic Works (London: Faber and Faber, 1986) p.110. 
3 Victor L. Cahn, Gender and Power in the Plays of Harold Pinter (London: Macmillan, 1994), p. 2.
4 Samuel Beckett quoted by David Pattie in Samuel Beckett (London: Routledge, 2000) p. 31.
5 Harold Pinter, “The Caretaker”, Plays: Two (1977; rpt. London: Methuen, 1988) p. 40.
6 Peter Hall, “Directing Pinter”, Harold Pinter: You Never Heard Such Silence, ed. Alan Bold (London: Vision, 1984) p. 23.
7 Andrew K. Kennedy, Six Dramatists in Search of a Language (London: Cambridge, 1976) p. 169.

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