Harold Pinter provides an up-to-date analysis and reappraisal concerning the work of one of the most studied and performed dramatists in the world. This volume seeks to assess Pinter's critical reputation and legacy since his death in 2008.

Graham Saunders is Allardyce Nicoll Professor at the University of Birmingham. He is author of Love Me or Kill Me: Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes (2002), About Kane: The Playwright and the Work (2009), Patrick Marber's Closer (2008), British Theatre Companies 1980-1994 (2015) and Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama: 'Upstart Crows' (2017).

Part 1: Life, Career, Critical Reputation 1. Life & Career: From Hackney to Holland Park 2. Pinter's Critical Reputation, Legacy, and Afterlife 3. Intruders & Rooms 4. Gender Trouble 5. Memory & Politics Part 2: Key Plays/Productions 6. The Birthday Party 7. The Caretaker 8. The Homecoming