期刊名称：Lapis Lazuli : an International Literary Journal
电子版ISSN：2249-4529
出版年度：2012
卷号：2
期号：1
出版社：Pinter Society of India
摘要：Harold Pinter has been generally considered as the foremost representative of British drama, after George Bernard Shaw, in the second half of the twentieth century. His name has entered the English language as an adjective used to describe a particular atmosphere and environment in drama: Pinteresque. The Nobel Prize committee praised him for his contribution to the world literature: ¨DHe restored theater to its basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of one another and pretence crumbles. With a minimum of plot, drama emerges from the power struggle and hide-and-seek of interlocution. Pinter's early plays are usually about a room with two characters who are menaced by intrusion from the outside world. The characters' dialogues are usually unpredictable and full of pauses and silences. They compete with one another for power in the realistic world without any pretence
