1. See Martin Esslin, Pinter: A Study of His Plays (London: Methuen, 1977) as well as Michael Scott (ed.), Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party, The Caretaker and The Homecoming (London: Macmillan, 1986) for an account of the early reviews.
2. Simon Trussler, The Plays of Harold Pinter: An Assessment (London: Gollancz, 1973) p. 124. In Trussler’s view, the play may ‘even’ be categorised as pornographic because it ‘toys with the most easily manipulated human emotions [sex and violence] without pausing to relate cause to effect’.
3. ‘A Director’s Approach: An Interview with Peter Hall’, in John Lahr (ed.), The Homecoming: A Casebook (New York: Grove, 1971) P. 9.
4. Harold Pinter, ‘The Art of the Theater’. An interview with Laurence Bensky in Paris Review, No. 10, 1966.
5. Guido Almansi and Simon Henderson, Harold Pinter (London: Methuen, 1983) p. 69.