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/library/oar/handle/123456789/127353| Title: | Betrayal Italian style |
| Authors: | Soncini, Sara |
| Keywords: | Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008 -- Criticism and interpretation Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008. Betrayal English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism Betrayal in literature Adultery in literature |
| Issue Date: | 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta. Institute of Anglo-Italian Studies |
| Citation: | Soncini, S. (2013). Betrayal Italian style. Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies, 12, 230-244. |
| Abstract: | Marital infidelity is a recurrent topos in Harold Pinter's drama, one which has enabled various arrangements of three interrelated concerns underpinning his entire production: 'the impossibility of verification, the invasion of territory, and the masking of emotion in the deployment of language', to borrow Elin Diamond's well-known summary. This presence becomes particularly intense in Pinter's memory plays, where adultery plays a crucial role in the characters' conflictive reconstructions of the past, and takes centre stage in Betrayal (1978), where it becomes the stated and ostensible topic of the whole plot. Here, unlike what happens in its cognate pieces Old Times and No Man 's Land, Emma's past love affair with her husband's best friend and business associate is not only verified, but actually staged following a reverse timeline of its key phases. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/127353 |
| Appears in Collections: | Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies, vol. 12 |
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