Betrayal

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Betrayal
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Harold Pinter
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:144
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 125
Category/GenreArt and design styles - Surrealism and Dada
Theatre - technical and background skills
Plays, playscripts
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
ISBN/Barcode 9780571338788
ClassificationsDewey:822.914
Audience
General
Edition Main - Faber Modern Classics

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 1 February 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Harold Pinter's Betrayal received its premiere at the National Theatre, London, in November 1978. After an initially guarded critical response, the work was rapidly revaluated and won the Olivier Award for Best New Play the following year. Set in London and Venice the play has an innovative chronology that opens at the end of an affair and works its way backwards over nine years, from 1977 to 1968. It is widely considered one of the playwright's pivotal works.

Author Biography

Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 and they married in 1980. In 1995 he won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, awarded for a lifetime's achievement in literature. In 1996 he was given the Laurence Olivier Award for a lifetime's achievement in theatre. In 2002 he was made a Companion of Honour for services to literature. In 2005 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and, in the same year, the Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry and the Franz Kafka Award (Prague). In 2006 he was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize and, in 2007, the highest French honour, the Legion d'honneur. He died in December 2008.