Harold Pinter is one of the most famous of the modern playwrights. He belonged to the school of the ‘Theatre of the Absurd’. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005. He was most renowned for critically-acclaimed plays such as The Birthday Party and regular work writing screenplays including The Go-Between and The French Lieutenant 's Woman. Pinter is revered for his inventiveness, originality, and innovation of form. His work is so efficacious that his name has been used to explain certain settings or situations –the "Pinter Pause" concerns relying on things not said to convey characters ' motivations or personalities, and the "Pinteresque" refers to an inconclusive end to a comedy of subtle menace and absurdity. Keywords: Harold Pinter, Pinteresque, playwright, Pinter Pause, The Room, Theatre of the Absurd The Swedish Nobel Committee cited that Pinter “in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms”. Over his career he became one of the most famous representatives of Theatre of the Absurd. The Theatre of the Absurd denotes a style of theatre, a set of plays of absurdist fiction as its theme. The Theatre of the Absurd believes that the human existence has no meaning or purpose and therefore there is no meaning in words, reading, writing or speaking and hence all communication breaks down. The plays are an expression of this break down. Logical construction and argument gives way to irrational and