A Critique of Pinter's Major Plays

THREE ONE-ACT PLAYS1. THE ROOM (1957)Pinter's first play has the basic situation that recurs in his subsequent work—that of a room, a room with a door and the cold and hostile world outside the door. The other basic ingredients of Pinter's play are also there—a couple, the man large, brutal and about fifty, and the woman who is older than the man, sixty, motherly and sentimental. The man just