Regarding the unseen : reading the offstage in Harold Pinter's early plays

• Main Author: Goh, Qi Wei
• Other Authors: Daniel Keith Jernigan
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69576
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

As a result of its close ties with theatre, drama has often been associated with sight and this has, understandably, led to readers paying more attention to the ‘seen’, while inadvertently pushing the ‘unseen’ into the background. However, the ‘unseen’ parts of a play (i.e. the offstage) are equally...