About the Author:
Charles Grimes is assistant professor of English and Theater at Saint Leo University, where he teaches modern drama, literary criticism, acting, and theater history. He earned an undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Masters in Theater from Villanova University, and a PhD in English from Mew York University. He has published articles on Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming, Reunion, Ashes to Ashes, and The Dumb Waiter, in addition to essays on Peter Barnes and Bernard Shaw. His experience in the theater as director and actor, including work on plays by Stoppard, Chekhov, and Wilde, and eight by Pinter, informs his literary research.

Harold Pinter’s Politics examines the expression of Pinter’s political beliefs across every aspect and era of his artistic career. The fierce political stances of this important dramatist have been embodied in plays, screenplays, and his career as a theatrical director. Pinter’s name is now a byword for antiauthoritarian and anti-American politics, and his artistic embrace of these stances can be seen from the earliest phases of his writing. His uniqueness as a political artist is that he is pessimistic about changing his audience or making it see its complicity in the horrors of the modern world. These horrors are dramatized through images of torture and oppression culminating in moments of silence that index the full extent of the destruction unleashed by power against dissidence.

The FDU Press has particular strengths in literary studies, world history and politics, biography, film, ethnic studies, sociology, the Civil War, art, religion, local history, and urban studies.