1. For a complete list to 1988 of the plays of Harold Pinter (b. 1930), see Contemporary Dramatists, ed. D.L. Kirkpatrick (London: St James Press, 1988). Since Mountain Language (1988), Pinter has published The Heat of the Day (1989
2. adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Bowen), The Comfort of Strangers and Other Screenplays (1990), and Party Time (1991).
3. ‘Pinter’s Pains’. The Listener. 5 Aueust 1971 o- 176_
4. ‘Radical Departures’, The Listener, 27 Octoberr 1988, p. 4.
5. Guido Almansi and Simon Henderson, Harold Pinter (London/ New York Methuen.19831 vo. 14–15.