Genius Harold Pinter

Pinter, for his own part, said: "I can't define what it is myself. You use the term 'menace' and so on. I have no explanation of any of that really. What I write is what I write."

Pinter wrote 29 plays, including The Caretaker (1960), The HomecomingBetrayal (1978), A Kind of Alaska (1982), and Celebration (2000). He died in 2008, at the age of 78.

He said: "How can you write a happy play? Drama is about conflict and general degrees of perturbation, disarray. I've never been able to write a happy play, but I've been able to enjoy a happy life."

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