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The Birthday Party was Pinter’s first full-length and most comprehensive early play. It is comprehensive in the sense that it includes most fully in a developed dramatic sense situations, dialogue and techniques of this first group of plays, thereby giving them their most thoroughgoing and memorable expression, as the following brief survey will show.
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© 1988 Ronald Knowles
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Knowles, R. (1988). The Birthday Party and Other Plays 1957–59. In: The Birthday Party and The Caretaker. Text and Performance. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08928-4_3
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