The Birthday Party
Additional Resources

Additional Resources for The Birthday Party


  • Armstrong, Raymond. Kafka and Pinter: Shadowboxing: The Struggle between Father and Son. St. Martin’s Press, London and New York, 1998.

  • Billington, Michael. The Life and Work of Harold Pinter. Faber and Faber, London, 1996.

  • Esslin, Martin. Pinter, the playwright. Methuen Drama, London, 1992.

  • Knowles, Ronald. Understanding Harold Pinter. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, S.C., 1995.

  • Page, Malcolm. File on Pinter. Methuen Drama, London, 1993.

  • Peacock, D. Keith. Harold Pinter and the New British Theatre. Greenwood Press, 1997.

  • Pinter, Harold. Conversations with Pinter by Mel Gussow. Limelight Editions, New York, 1994.

  • Raby, Peter. The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

  • Regal, Martin S. Harold Pinter: A Question of timing. St. Martin’s Press, 1995.

  • Smith, Ian. Pinter in the Theatre. Nick Hern Press, 2005.

  • Thompson, David T. Pinter, the Player’s Playwright. Schocken Books, New York, 1985.

  • Diamond, Elin. Pinter’s Comic Play. Associated University Presses, Cranbury, NJ, 1985.


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