LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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James Joyce
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G.B. Shaw
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Harold Pinter
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Jane Austen
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Birthday Party (1957) is the first full-length play by Harold Pinter, first published in London by Encore Publishing in 1959. It is one of his best-known and most frequently performed plays.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Birthday Party, Harold Pinter’s second full-length play, was written in 1957.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Birthday Party was Pinter’s first full-length play. It was performed and revived multiple times in theatres across Europe and the US. The Birthday Party author drew inspiration for the play from his personal experience of staying in a boarding house in England.
Detailed explanation-4: -Pinter began writing The Birthday Party in the summer of 1957 while touring in Doctor in the House.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Birthday Party, drama in three acts by Harold Pinter, produced in 1958 and published in 1959. Pinter’s first full-length play established his trademark “comedy of menace, ” in which a character is suddenly threatened by the vague horrors at large in the outside world.