THE COLLECTION

HEADLINE:

Author: Harold Pinter

Title of the play: The collection

Editorial: Faber

Year of publication: 1960

Place of publication: London

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:

Harry Kane: He is the friend of Bill, they live together.

James Horne: He is the husband of Stella. He has green eyes, blond hair and he has toupee.

Stella Horne: She is the wife of James.

Bill Lloyd: He is the friend of Harry. He works designing clothes

PLOT:

James knock at the door of Harry asking for Bill many times, and due to Bill weren’t in the house and he can’t talk with him by phone, James decides go in person to talk with him about something that it has worried.

Both they don’t meet before, but the plot is that James will go to talk with Bill because his wife talks to him that she had had a venture with him. At the beginning Bill negated it, but later he admitted it apologising that he doesn’t know that she was married.

He come back home and says to his wife where he had go, and he is going to go again in spite of she doesn’t want that he returned.

By other hand Harry goes to Stella’s house too to talk with her, and she says that all is an invention of his husband.

James decide that he want to do a duel with bill, although he doesn’t want James through a knife and he does a court in his hand. Then arrives Harry and later Bill says that really it doesn’t happen, only they spend a night in a hotel talking about what could happen if they had a venture.

SPACE:

The scenery is divided in three areas, two peninsula and one promontory. This area is different and separated of the others. In the left scenery is situated the house of Harry in Bulgaria, decorated elegant. At the right is the house of James in Chelsea.

TIME:

The play happens in a few days of autumn.

STILISTIC AND LITERARY RESOURCES:

Language valuation: The language is colloquial and also vulgar, due to the appearance of many words from this register as bloke.

PERSONAL OPINION:

Although the register of the play had been easy to understand, the plot have confused me many times.

At the beginning of the play I had to read with determiner many times because following the story I had been confusing the characters, I couldn’t say who were friend of who and also what pretend the husband of Stella and if her story has true, because although at the end of the story, I think that Bill and Stella had a venture and they negated it o don’t destroy the matrimony of she doesn’t break, due to at the beginning Bill admitted it.