哈罗德·品特是英国继萧伯纳以来最著名的剧作家,2005年获得诺贝尔文学奖。他把语言的沉默、停顿发挥到了极致,他认为沉默是人物内心状态的赤裸表达,人在沉默中最真实,语言静止了,但意义在进行,看似静止实则动态,静中有动;而剧中人物振振有词、长篇大论是另一种沉默,语言丧失了作为交流工具、表达内心情态的功能,语言往往成了烟幕,看似发声实则不表达真实的意图,动中有静。20世纪最伟大英国戏剧演员之一的德克·博 Harold Pinter is the most famous playwright in the UK since Shaw being Bernard and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005. He put silence and pause in language to the extreme. He believes that silence is the naked expression of the innermost state of human beings. People are the most real in silence and the language is still, but the meaning is going on. The characters in the play are full of vibrancy, and the long essay is another kind of silence. The language loses its function as a communication tool and expression of inner modality. The language often becomes a smokescreen. Seemingly sounding actually does not express the true intention, but there is a quiet movement. Dirk Bo, one of the greatest British theater actors of the 20th century