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Modern Drama, 1981
Published commentary on The Dumb Waiter is for the most part rather unsatisfactory. Instead of analyzing the playas Pinter wrote it, most commentators rely on distortions and fabrications -or, at best, conclusions based on guesswork -to concoct a new play of their own making.
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Playing Dumb and Knowing it All: Competitive Orientation and Impression Management Strategies

Individual Differences Research, 2009
This study considered individual differences in competitive orientations (hypercompetition, competition avoidance, and personal development competition) as they relate to the use of two opposing self-presentational strategies, "playing dumb" and "knowing it all" (176 women, 156 men).
Lovely, A., â€ +3 more
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Harold Pinter's Play The Dumb Waiter as a Dürrenmattian (Tragi)Comedy

2020
The paper attempts to answer the question of whether Harold Pinter’s early play The Dumb Waiter (1957) can be analyzed through the perspective of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s theory of (tragi)comedy, explained in his 1954 essay “Problems of the Theatre.” It examines whether Pinter’s play contains elements such as inter alia, a conceit or idea (Einfall), a ...
Novak, Sonja, Spajić, Iris
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“Devils Coated in the Shapes of Men” : The Dumb Shows in The Stukeley Plays

Cahiers Charles V, 2007
Les «dumb shows» (pantomimes) élisabéthaines étaient des spectacles de violence et de cruauté hautement stylisés et aux conventions sophistiquées. Le présent article se penche sur leur mécanisme rhétorique, ainsi que leur fonction idéologique, à travers l’exemple des Stukeley Plays, qui mettent en scène une Afrique prétendument deshumanisée et ...
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