List of illustrations Notes on contributors Chronology Note onthetext Introduction Part 1:Text and context 1 Pinter,politics and postmodernism(1) 2 Pinter and the 1950S 3 The sacred joke:comedy and politics in Pinter''s early plays 4 Tales of the city:some places and voices in Pinter''s plays 5 Pinter and twentieth—century drama 6 Harold Pinter,screenwriter:an overview Part 2:Pinter and performance 7 Body language in Pinter''s plays 8 Harold Pinter as director 9 Directing the plays of Harold Pinter 1O Pinter in Russia 11 Pinter and Ireland Part 3:Reactions to Pinter 12 Pinter''s sexual politics 13 Pinter and the critics 14 Pinter as celebrity 15 Pinter,politics and postmodernism(2) 16 Afterword:Harold Pinter and cricket Bibliography Index