Titlebook: Harold Pinter; A Question of Timing Martin S. Regal Book 1995 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1995 drama.Har

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Introduction,eature of Pinter’s work that has received scant attention from his critics, namely his unusual preoccupation with time and occasion.. From the very outset of his career as a writer, he has been deeply concerned with time and timing at both a philosophical and dramaturgical level.. This concern goes

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Recreating the Past in the Present,orced to repeat a history of betrayal and separation.. In ., heredity is fate; past, present and future move relentlessly along the same path. When Ruth professes to have been ‘different’ when she met Teddy (although we never find out in what way), he rejects any implication of change: . This in tur

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Post-Proust,return to, Hirst is faced with an unchanging wasteland. The present is ‘unscrupulous’, distorting moment by moment but paradoxically failing to change a state of overall fixity and inertia. In this sense, .’. is Pinter’s bleakest play, precisely because it scorns any pretensions to valorise ‘lost ti

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Conclusion,d Aristotle’s descriptive account of the representation of time on stage into a prescriptive formula is still strong, and despite the advent of cinema and television and the subsequent effect of those media on the perception of dramatic time, many audiences still believe that a stage play ought to l

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