Penelo Prentice's The Pinter Ethic: The Erotic Aesthetic (Garland Reference PDF

By Penelo Prentice

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That profound impression determined the course of his next decade and the rest of his life. Harold won a grant to RADA, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, but did not study seriously. In that “terrible atmosphere of affectation and unreality, ankle bands and golden hair,” he skipped class to watch cricket trials; after three months he faked a nervous breakdown and dropped out for months without informing either his parents or those funding him. (“Caretaker’s Caretaker,” 76) He later attended the Central School of Dramatic Arts and again dropped out.

They cease to be morally thinking creatures. Lear, Macbeth and Othello are all forced, in one way or another, to account for what they do and they all fail to do it. (132) Pete, like Pinter, refuses to view “good and evil as abstractions” apart from specific human circumstances of life, or to see art as a refuge, sanctuary, or an activity which sets the artist, hero, or audience apart from the world, even the mundane, practical matters basic to existence. Pete finds Mark’s saying, “I’ve got nothing but contempt for the till,” hardly admirable.

Mac, 84) Of Wolfit’s Oedipus at Colonus Pinter speaks of the same kind of “precision” that “impressed” him in a gesture Wolfit made with a cloak: “He waited for the moment, which was always the same moment, nevertheless the tension waiting for it each night was always pronounced. ” (Bakewell, 82) That regard for accuracy, precision, and “the moment when things would happen” translated directly into his own writing. But Pinter idealizes, sentimentalizes, and romanticizes no one, neither his mentors, his characters, nor himself.

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