LitCharts Teacher Editions. Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does. View Notes - us history notes 278pgs from HIST 3373B at Texas State. THE SOUTHERN COLONIES IN THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES I. Southern Plantation Colonies -- general. Doo Wop Shoo Bop various artist cd page listed by record label. Each entry includes cd title, track listing and brief description. Harold Pinter - Wikipedia. Harold Pinter. Pinter in December 2. Born(1. 93. 0- 1. October 1. 93. 0Hackney, London, England. Died. 24 December 2. Acton, London, England. Occupation. Playwright, screenwriter, actor, theatre director, poet. Nationality. British. Period. 19. 47–2. Notable awards. Spouse. Children. One son with Merchant,six stepchildren with Fraser. ![]() · 1963: An iconic portrait of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was more or less shot from the hip. Allyn Baum snapped this photograph at a taping for a.Signature. Websitewww. Literature portal. Harold Pinter. CHCBE (; 1. October 1. 93. 0 – 2. December 2. 00. 8) was a Nobel Prize- winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 5. His best- known plays include The Birthday Party (1. The Homecoming (1. Betrayal (1. 97. 8), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1. The Go- Between (1. The French Lieutenant's Woman (1. The Trial (1. 99. Sleuth (2. 00. 7). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works. Pinter was born and raised in Hackney, east London, and educated at Hackney Downs School. He was a sprinter and a keen cricket player, acting in school plays and writing poetry. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art but did not complete the course. He was fined for refusing National service as a conscientious objector. Subsequently, he continued training at the Central School of Speech and Drama and worked in repertory theatre in Ireland and England. In 1. 95. 6 he married actress Vivien Merchant and had a son, Daniel, born in 1. He left Merchant in 1. Lady Antonia Fraser in 1. Pinter's career as a playwright began with a production of The Room in 1. His second play, The Birthday Party, closed after eight performances, but was enthusiastically reviewed by critic Harold Hobson. ![]() His early works were described by critics as "comedy of menace". Later plays such as No Man's Land (1. Betrayal (1. 97. 8) became known as "memory plays". He appeared as an actor in productions of his own work on radio and film. He also undertook a number of roles in works by other writers. He directed nearly 5. Pinter received over 5. Nobel Prize in Literature in 2. French Légion d'honneur in 2. Despite frail health after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in December 2. Pinter continued to act on stage and screen, last performing the title role of Samuel Beckett's one- act monologue Krapp's Last Tape, for the 5. Royal Court Theatre, in October 2. He died from liver cancer on 2. December 2. 00. 8. Biography. Early life and education. Pinter was born on 1. October 1. 93. 0, in Hackney, east London, the only child of British parents of Jewish Eastern European descent: his father, Hyman "Jack" Pinter (1. Frances (née Moskowitz; 1. Pinter believed an aunt's erroneous view that the family was Sephardic and had fled the Spanish Inquisition; thus, for his early poems, Pinter used the pseudonym Pinta and at other times used variations such as da Pinto.[4] Later research by Lady Antonia Fraser, Pinter's second wife, revealed the legend to be apocryphal; three of Pinter's grandparents came from Poland and the fourth from Odessa, so the family was Ashkenazic.[4][5][6]Pinter's family home in London is described by his official biographer Michael Billington as "a solid, red- brick, three- storey villa just off the noisy, bustling, traffic- ridden thoroughfare of the Lower Clapton Road".[7] In 1. Blitz, Pinter was evacuated from their house in London to Cornwall and Reading.[7] Billington states that the "life- and- death intensity of daily experience" before and during the Blitz left Pinter with profound memories "of loneliness, bewilderment, separation and loss: themes that are in all his works."[8]Pinter discovered his social potential as a student at Hackney Downs School, a London grammar school, between 1. Partly through the school and partly through the social life of Hackney Boys' Club .. The friends he made in those days—most particularly Henry Woolf, Michael (Mick) Goldstein and Morris (Moishe) Wernick—have always been a vital part of the emotional texture of his life."[6][9] A major influence on Pinter was his inspirational English teacher Joseph Brearley, who directed him in school plays and with whom he took long walks, talking about literature.[1. According to Billington, under Brearley's instruction, "Pinter shone at English, wrote for the school magazine and discovered a gift for acting."[1. In 1. 94. 7 and 1. Romeo and Macbeth in productions directed by Brearley.[1. At the age of 1. 2, Pinter began writing poetry, and in spring 1. Hackney Downs School Magazine.[1. In 1. 95. 0, his poetry was first published outside of the school magazine in Poetry London, some of it under the pseudonym "Harold Pinta".[1. Pinter was an atheist.[1. Sport and friendship. Pinter enjoyed running and broke the Hackney Downs School sprinting record.[1. He was a cricket enthusiast, taking his bat with him when evacuated during the Blitz.[2. In 1. 97. 1, he told Mel Gussow: "one of my main obsessions in life is the game of cricket—I play and watch and read about it all the time."[2. He was chairman of the Gaieties Cricket Club, a supporter of Yorkshire Cricket Club,[2. One wall of his study was dominated by a portrait of himself as a young man playing cricket, which was described by Sarah Lyall, writing in The New York Times: "The painted Mr. Pinter, poised to swing his bat, has a wicked glint in his eye; testosterone all but flies off the canvas."[2. Pinter approved of the "urban and exacting idea of cricket as a bold theatre of aggression."[2. After his death, several of his school contemporaries recalled his achievements in sports, especially cricket and running.[2. The BBC Radio 4 memorial tribute included an essay on Pinter and cricket.[2. Other interests that Pinter mentioned to interviewers are family, love and sex, drinking, writing, and reading.[2. According to Billington, "If the notion of male loyalty, competitive rivalry and fear of betrayal forms a constant thread in Pinter's work from The Dwarfs onwards, its origins can be found in his teenage Hackney years. Pinter adores women, enjoys flirting with them, worships their resilience and strength. But, in his early work especially, they are often seen as disruptive influences on some pure and Platonic ideal of male friendship: one of the most crucial of all Pinter's lost Edens."[6][3. Early theatrical training and stage experience. Beginning in late 1. Pinter attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for two terms, but hating the school, missed most of his classes, feigned a nervous breakdown, and dropped out in 1. In 1. 94. 8 he was called up for National Service. He registered as a conscientious objector, was brought to trial twice, and was ultimately fined for refusing to serve.[3. He had a small part in the Christmas pantomime. Dick Whittington and His Cat at the Chesterfield Hippodrome in 1. From January to July 1. Central School of Speech and Drama.[3. From 1. 95. 1 to 1. Ireland with the Anew Mc. Master repertory company, playing over a dozen roles.[3. In 1. 95. 2, he began acting in regional English repertory productions; from 1. Donald Wolfit Company, at the King's Theatre, Hammersmith, performing eight roles.[3. From 1. 95. 4 until 1. Pinter acted under the stage name David Baron.[3. In all, Pinter played over 2. To supplement his income from acting, Pinter worked as a waiter, a postman, a bouncer, and a snow- clearer, meanwhile, according to Mark Batty, "harbouring ambitions as a poet and writer."[4. In October 1. 98. Pinter recalled: "I was in English rep as an actor for about 1. My favourite roles were undoubtedly the sinister ones. They're something to get your teeth into."[4. During that period, he also performed occasional roles in his own and others' works for radio, TV, and film, as he continued to do throughout his career.[3. Marriages and family life. From 1. 95. 6 until 1. Pinter was married to Vivien Merchant, an actress whom he met on tour,[4. Alfie. Their son, Daniel, was born in 1. Through the early 1. Merchant appeared in many of Pinter's works, including The Homecoming on stage (1. For seven years, from 1. Pinter was engaged in a clandestine affair with BBC- TV presenter and journalist Joan Bakewell, which inspired his 1. Betrayal,[4. 7] and also throughout that period and beyond he had an affair with an American socialite, whom he nicknamed "Cleopatra". This relationship was another secret he kept from both his wife and Bakewell.[4.
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