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October 16, 2019 • 19:20 pm

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Who among the following English playwrights wrote screenplays on novels such as Marcel Proust?s

In Search of Lost Time, John Fowles?s French Lieutenant?s Woman, and Margaret Atwood?s Handmaid?s Tale ?

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A John Arden

B Edward Bond

C Harold Pinter

D David Hare

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Harold Pinter, the British playwright, director and actor is chiefly known for his plays The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His plays are known to mark the beginning of the comedy of menace. He was credited with the invention of this new dramatic style known as comedy of menace, and his name has been adopted as descriptive of a type of theatre under the term “Pinteresque”

Pinter also adapted other writers’ novels to screenplays, including The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981), from the novel by John Fowles (directed by Karel Reisz) Turtle Diary (1985), based on the novel by Russell Hoban, The Trial (1993), from the novel by Franz Kafka, directed by David Jones, The Handmaid’s Tale (1990) from the novel of Margaret Atwood.

A comedy of menace is a play in which the laughter of the audience in some or all situations is immediately followed by a feeling of some impending disaster. The audience is made aware of some menace in the very midst of its laughter. The menace is produced throughout the play from potential or actual violence or from an underline sense of violence throughout the play.

He was awarded Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005.
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