‘Looking back through smoke’: The Faces of Memory in Harold Pinter’s Old Times (1971)
In his play written in 1971, Harold Pinter builds the stage as a place haunted by the echoes of a forlorn past. Memory first appears as a homecoming, a ceremonial meeting with ‘good old times’. A middle-aged couple, Deeley and Kate, is about to welcome Kate’s old friend, Anna, whom she has not seen...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2005-11-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/13783 |