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Harold Pinter
1959
Play
Comedy, Drama
The Birthday Party is told from the third-person limited point of view. The audience has access to only the characters' words and actions.
The Birthday Party is a comedy of menace which is a type of writing that combines danger and comedy to invite the readers to form judgments about the characters. Most of the action takes place during the birthday party that Meg arranges for Stanley.
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