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Rpt. as "Introduction: Writing for the Theatre", on 9–16 of Complete Works: One (New York: Grove Press , 1977).. Rpt. by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. in 1994... Also rpt. as "Writing for the Theatre" on 20–26 of Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics: 1948—2005, rev. ed. (1998; London: Faber and Faber, 2005)... (Ellipses in the version published in Various Voices omit quotation listed first below, which is featured on the home page of Pinter's official Website, HaroldPinter.org, and also quoted in his 2005 Nobel Lecture . Beginning with quoting these words that he says he wrote "in 1958", he adds the following qualification: "I believe that these assertions still make sense and do still apply to the exploration of reality through art. So as a writer I stand by them but as a citizen I cannot. As a citizen I must ask: What is true? What is false?") (en) |
