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Throughout his life, playwright, poet, and political activist Harold Pinter has consistently cast light on the hypocrisy of power and those who would defend the status quo for the sake of their own security and comfort. Awarded the Wilfred Owen Prize in 2004 for his poetry condemning US military intervention in Iraq, Mr. Pinter has succeeded in combining his artistry with his political activism.
Death etc. brings together Pinter’s most poignant and especially relevant writings in response to war. From chilling psychological portraits of those who commit atrocities in the name of a higher power, to essays on the state-sponsored terrorism of present-day regimes, to solemn hymns commemorating the faceless masses that perish unrecognized, Mr. Pinter’s writings are as essential to the preservation of open debate as to our awareness of personal involvement in the fate of our global community.
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Death etc. - Harold Pinter
Death etc.
By the same author
Plays
Ashes to Ashes • Betrayal • The Birthday Party • The Caretaker • Celebration and The Room • The Collection and The Lover • The Hothouse • Landscape and Silence • Moonlight • Mountain Language • No Man’s Land • Old Times • One for the Road • Other Places • (A Kind of Alaska, Victoria Station, Family Voices) • Party Times • The Room and The Dumb Waiter • A Slight Ache and Other Plays • Tea Party and Other Plays
Plays One
(The Birthday Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Hothouse, A Night Out, The Black and White, The Examination)
Plays Two
(The Caretaker, The Dwarfs, The Collection, The Lover, Night School, Trouble in the Works, The Black and White, Request Stop, Last to Go, Special Offer)
Plays Three
(The Homecoming) Tea Party, The Basement, Landscape, Silence, Night, That’s Your Trouble, That’s All, Applicant, Interview, Dialogue for Three, Old Times, No Man’s Land)
Plays Four
(Betrayal, Monologue, One for the Road, Family Voices, A Kind of Alaska, Victoria Station, Mountain Language, Precisely, The New World Order, Party Time, Moonlight, Ashes to Ashes)
Screenplays
The Comfort of Strangers and Other Screenplays (Reunion, Victory, Turtle Diary)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Other Screenplays (The Last Tycoon, Langrishe, Go Down)
The Heal of the Day
The Proust Screenplay
The Servant and Other Screenplays (The Pumpkin Eaters, The Quiller Memorandum, Accident, The Go-Between)
The Trial
Poetry and Prose
Collected Poems and Prose
The Dwarfs: A Novel
100 Poems by 100 Poets (an anthology selected by Harold Pinter, Geoffrey Godbert, and Anthony Astbury)
99 Poems in Translation (an anthology selected by Harold Pinter, Geoffrey Godbert, and Anthony Astbury)
Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics
HAROLD PINTER
Death etc.
This collection copyright © 2005 by Harold Pinter
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Printed in the United States of America
CAUTION: Professionals and amateurs are hereby warned that the plays contained in this volume are subject to a royalty. They are fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and all British Commonwealth countries, and all countries covered by the International Copyright Union, the Pan-American Copyright Convention, and the Universal Copyright Convention. All rights, including professional, amateur, motion picture, recitation, public reading, radio broadcasting, television, video or sound taping, all other forms of mechanical or electronic reproduction, such as information storage and retrieval systems and photocopying, and rights of translation into foreign languages, are strictly reserved.
First-class professional, stock, and amateur applications for permission to perform any of these works, and those other rights stated above, must be made in advance to Judy Daish Associates, Ltd., 2 St. Charles Place, London W10 6EG England, and paying the requisite fee, whether the play is presented for charity or gain and whether or not admission is charged. Mountain Language and One for the Road are licensed in the United States and Canada through Dramatists Play Service, 440 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cover design by Charles Rue Woods
Pinter, Harold, 1930–
Death etc./ Harold Pinter.
p. cm.
Includes author’s Wilfred Owen Award
speech, given on Mar. 18, 2005.
ISBN 0-8021-4225-7
eISBN 978-0-8021-9171-7
I. Title.
PR6066.153D43 2005
822’.914—dc 22
2005050203
Grove Press
841 Broadway
New York, NY 10003
05 06 07 08 09 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
To Donald and Patty, Ariel and Angelica and Wally and Deborah
CONTENTS
Wilfred Owen Award Speech
Democracy
Mountain Language
The Disappeared
The New World Order
One for the Road
The Old Days
Press Conference
An Open Letter to the Prime Minister
House of Commons Speech
God Bless America
American Football
Iraq Debate, Imperial War Museum
The Special Relationship
The Bombs
Ashes to Ashes
Weather Forecast
After Lunch
Meeting
Death
Death etc.
WILFRED OWEN AWARD SPEECH
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