Teacher Guide

The Homecoming Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Consider other plays written by Harold Pinter, such as The Caretaker and The Room. Especially consider The Birthday Party, which, like The Homecoming, focuses on the family and the fraught relationships between siblings, parents, and children.

Compare The Homecoming to other plays categorized as belong to the Theatre of the Absurd, such as Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, and Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?.

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