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Notes
- ^ "Demolition Man" ( December 24, 2007 ) The New Yorker
- ^ See John Russell Taylor, "Pinter's Game of Happy Families", 57–65 in Lahr, Casebook; cf. Franzblau and Esslin, The Peopled Wound and Pinter the Playwright.
- ^ a b Interviewed by Campbell Robertson, in "In Search of Her Inner Kangaroo Suit", The New York Times 24 Dec. 2007, The Arts: E1, 6, accessed 24 Dec. 2007, Eve Best, the actress playing Ruth in the 2007–2008 Cort Theatre production of The Homecoming, concludes: " 'This woman becomes the queen, and there hasn't been a struggle .... Simply by discovering herself, she has ultimate strength. I love that.' " [E6].
- ^ a b See Bernard F. Dukore, "A Woman's Place", and Augusta Walker, "Why the Lady Does It", 109–16 and 117–21 in Lahr, Casebook, respectively.
- ^ See also "A Designer's Approach: An Interview with John Bury, 27–35 in Lahr, Casebook. In his recent October 2007 interview remarks made to Lahr, published in "Demolition Man", Pinter points out that he considers The Homecoming his most "muscular" (masculine?) play.
- ^ http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/homecomingyork-rev
- ^ See the double-page illustration of the original set for the London production, by John Bury, in the front matter of the Lahrs' Casebook. In "Demolition Man", Lahr mentions that the 2007 New York set design is not vast enough to parallel the text's references to its being "a large room, extending the width of the stage."
- ^ Lahr, Casebook; Lahr, "Demolition Man"; Merritt, Pinter in Play xvii–xxvii, and throughout.
- ^ a b c Susan Merritt Elliott, "Critical Responses to the Puzzling World of Pinter", Chap. One (1–42), in "Fantasy behind Play: A Psychoanalytic Study of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party, The Caretaker and The Homecoming", Diss. Indiana U, 1973, cited in Merritt, Pinter in Play 255–62.
- ^ a b http://www.johnlahr.com/pinter.html
- ^ a b Lahr, Casebook n. pag. [x].
- ^ Nightingale, Benedict (1965-03-27). "review: The Homecoming at Cardiff". The Guardian. p. 6.
- ^ Simonson, Robert (2012-05-31). "Broadway Producer Edgar Freitag Is Dead at 80". Playbill.com. Retrieved 2012-06-17.
- ^ "'The Homecoming' Awards and Nominations" IBDB.com
- ^ "Production details", The Homecoming at the Almeida Theatre (official webpage), accessed 16 Feb. 2008.
- Introduction
- Characters
- Setting
- Plot
- Symbolism and irony of title
- Critical response
- Composition history
- Production history
- Notes
- References
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