The New Elizabethans: Sixty Portraits of our Age. James Naughtie

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СКАЧАТЬ to be forged, deceptions to be practised: in his play Old Times in 1971 we’re never told which of the three characters is telling the truth about the past (if any is). None of this would matter if Pinter was writing in an abstract way about deep feelings that are never properly revealed: there would be no drama, and not even six people at the Thursday matinée. But the reason that he cast a spell on so many audiences was that he understood the nature of dramatic tension: that there is not much fun in not knowing something, unless you suspect that it is sufficiently menacing or dangerous to matter. You have to care.

      By the end of the sixties Pinter was the leading English dramatist to make the final break with the cosy past that John Osborne had first confronted with Look Back in Anger in the fifties, and had created a language which was his own. In a later play like Betrayal, in 1978, he caught perfectly the struggle of two upper-middle-class people to cope with the fallout of an affair and to try to settle who is the greater betrayer. The play, inspired by his own seven-year affair with Joan Bakewell, distils the excitements and the nightmare of the consequences into conversation in which everything that is said points to a much deeper argument that is kept out of the room but is always knocking at the door.

      It wasn’t surprising that Pinter should use this affair to make drama, because his own life had become increasingly public. He didn’t like it, but acknowledged that in a way he was asking for it. Of his failed marriage to the actress Vivien Merchant – they wed in 1956 and she died of alcoholism in 1982 – he said: ‘While she was alive, if you think about it, so much of my work was about unhappy frozen married relationships.’ He got out of his own by falling in love, in 1975, with Lady Antonia Fraser, writer, daughter of the eccentric Labour peer Lord Longford, member of a famous Catholic family, and wife of a right-wing Conservative MP.

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