"Pinter in Play may be one of the most ambitious contributions to the history of contemporary criticism in the last five years." - John Gronbeck-Tedesco, Pinter Review
"A masterly treatise—not only on Pinter, but on the art of literary criticism in general." - Newsletter of the International Theatre Institute of the United States, Inc.
"A quite remarkable piece of scholarship. . . ." - R. J. Lee , Choice
"An extraordinary book, at times a model of scrupulous textual examination, at others a provocative turning upside down of conventional practices of criticism." - Ronald W. Strang, Notes and Queries
"An original and important book relevant to current general interests in literary theory and the problems of interpretation as well as to Pinter scholarship and criticism. Merritt has produced a work of ‘metacriticism’ that I would expect to remain of permanent value. Her knowledge of Pinter scripts, performances of them, and of Pinter critics and reviewers is vast, and parallel to her demonstrations of changes in critical strategies and perspectives, she evokes a sense of the changes Pinter has gone through as a playwright." - Michael Steig, Simon Fraser University
