Harold Pinter's Party Time av White G. D.

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<P>¿All you have do is shut up and enjoy the hospitality.¿ Terry</P><P></P><B><P>Harold Pinter</B>¿s <I>Party Time<B></B></I>(1991) is an extraordinary distillation of the playwright¿s key concerns. Pulsing with political anger, it marks a stepping stone on Pinter¿s path from iconic dramatist of existential unease to Nobel Prize-winning poet of human rights. </P><P></P><P>G. D. White situates this underrated play within a recognisably ¿Pinteresque¿ landscape of ambiguous, brittle social drama while also recognising its particularity: <I>Party Time </I>is haunted by Augusto Pinochet¿s right-wing coup against Salvador Allende¿s democratically elected government in Chile. This book considers the play<I></I>and its confederate works in the dual context of Pinter¿s literary career and burgeoning international concern with human rights and freedom of expression.</P><P></P><P>White contrasts Pinter¿s uneasy relationship with the UK¿s powerful elite with the worldwide acclaim garnered by his d