The journey began with The Conditions of Agreement in 1946 and ended with The Devils in 1961. He also wrote for the films, television and even radio. His journey was not limited to stage and theatre. It is a round and unvarnished story of a prodigious playwright who within a short span of his life, did much to outshine his contemporaries. This book is a complete and comprehensive projection of John Whiting as an absurdist playwright. He was greatly influenced by Samuel Beckett which he unhesitatingly acknowledged. During his life time he was called as one among the most successful living dramatists of his time. Going a step further he created a special niche for himself in the firmament of British theatre and became so famous that Pintereque became an adjective in English language. Even though his early plays have the absurd elements in them but his later plays are more vocal for their political and social views. From the beginning he was considered as a young British dramatist of the famous absurd dramatic tradition. Harold Pinter (1930-2008) established himself as one of the most prominent modern dramatist in the post second world war era through his path breaking plays. The present paper aims to contribute to a scholastic study of dramatic elements in Noble prize winning British dramatist Harold Pinter's two early plays The Room (1957) and The Birthday Party (1957), and make an analysis of their proximity to the absurd dramatic tradition.
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