5 Top theatre books like Harold Pinter by Michael Billington

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Harold Pinter

By: Michael Billington

4.19

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

During the past ten years, Harold Pinter has written a new play, three film scripts, sheaves of poe…

If you liked the theatre plot in Harold Pinter by Michael Billington , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Sarah Ruden

1. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

Similar categories in Aristophanes's Lysistrata book and Michael Billington's Harold Pinter

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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2. The Night Manager

By: John Le Carré

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington an unholy alliance operates between the intelli… read more

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3. The Quiller Memorandum

By: Adam Hall

3.80

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

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4. Get Carter

By: Ted Lewis

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Doncaster, and Jack Carter is home for a funeral - his brother's. Frank's car was found at the bott… read more

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5. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's King Lear book and Michael Billington's Harold Pinter

  • theatre
  • plays
"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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6. Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more

Similar categories in Virginia Woolf's Orlando book and Michael Billington's Harold Pinter

"Life and a lover"

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Thoughts are divine."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Cover of The Caretaker by Harold Pinter

7. The Caretaker

By: Harold Pinter

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

This play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdow… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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8. Joy in the Morning (Jeeves, #8)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

3.33

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more

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9. Death of a Salesman

By: Arthur Miller

3.57

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more

Similar categories in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman book and Michael Billington's Harold Pinter

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
"I’m tired to the death."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"LINDA [with infinite patience]"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"Be liked and you will never want."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

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10. The Pilgrim's Progress

By: John Bunyan

4.06

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most ent… read more

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"Follow your heart"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

11. The Birthday Party

By: Harold Pinter

3.23

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seem… read more

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12. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

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13. Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn

By: Gabriel Pogrund

4.01

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The 2017 parliament began with Labour on the precipice of power, and its left-most fringe - for so … read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Pogrund's Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn book and Michael Billington's Harold Pinter

  • nonfiction
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14. Harold Pinter

By: Michael Billington

4.19

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

During the past ten years, Harold Pinter has written a new play, three film scripts, sheaves of poe… read more

Similar categories in Michael Billington's Harold Pinter book and Michael Billington's Harold Pinter

  • biography
  • theatre
  • nonfiction
  • plays
  • drama

5 must-read plays books like Harold Pinter by Michael Billington

Transform Your Habits

Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Transform Your Habits

King Lear

William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

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The Caretaker

Harold Pinter

3.51

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Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller

3.57

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The Threepenny Opera

Bertolt Brecht , Kurt Weill , John Willett , Ralph Manheim

3.89

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The Chairs

Eugène Ionesco , Martin Crimp

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Arms and the Man

George Bernard Shaw

4.06

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