Welcome to our second issue. This is the Proceedings of Harold Pinter and the Theatre of Menace, the Spring 2023 Senior Seminar taught by Francesca Coppa.  In 2005, Harold Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the greatest honor given to any writer. British, Jewish, working-class, Pinter is arguably the most important playwright of the twentieth century, rivaling even his friend Samuel Beckett. The poetics of Pinter's theatre, labeled by critics as "the theatre of menace," is not only key to understanding the history of the second half of the 20th century, but may be even more relevant to us in the twenty-first century, with its constant fear-mongering and threats of unspecified "terror."

This issue was worked on by editors Gabriella Hirshfield and Saoirse Ozkan.