Abstract
Harold Pinter, the great English playwright, awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature in 2005. For this reason, his works have attracted broad attention in China since 2005. However, as to the ascription of his early works, there are always disputations in academia. It does have influence in researching Pinter’s works. When we tide up the groups of writers, we can know that, in a given period, people’s thoughts and understand the influence of history to human and their thoughts. The Birthday Party is a magnum opus of Pinter’s early work. It combines some people and their situations in The Room and The Dumb Waiter, and it is more skillful in depicting. This essay focuses on the absurd elements in the early works of Harold Pinter, the Birthday Party, taken as an example, based on the theories of Martin Esslin, to illuminate how the writer succeeded and developed The Theatre of the Absurd.

Keywords  Harold Pinter   The Theatre of the Absurd  “Comedy of Menace”  the Birthday Party

英国戏剧大师哈罗德•品特在2005年获得了诺贝尔文学奖，他的作品进而受到广泛关注。然而对于其早期作品的类别归属，学术界一直存在着争议。这对于正确地分析品特的作品及其风格的是有影响的。理顺了作家作品的类别归属，才能了解特定时期，人的思想动态，进而显现历史对人类思想状态的影响，从而体现人的思想进化历程。《生日宴会》是品特早期的代表作，融合了《房间》与《送菜升降机》中的某些人物和处境，且创作手法较之另两部更加娴熟。本文以《 生日宴会》为例，分析哈罗德•品特早期“威胁喜剧”的荒诞派元素，结合马丁•艾斯林的荒诞派戏剧理论，将荒诞派的元素进行对比，进而具体说明品特是如何传承和发展了荒诞派戏剧。

关键词　哈罗德•品特   荒诞派戏剧   “威胁喜剧”   《生日宴会》

1 Introduction
Harold Pinter, the famous English playwright, has won the Nobel Prize of Literature in 2005 and has become the second playwright that won this award after Samuel Beckett. Therefore, his works are known to the public and attracted great attention in the world. However, as to which faction he belongs to, there are great bifurcations. The author is trying to prove that it belongs to The Theatre of the Absurd. This easy is based on the theories of Martin Esslin, and examples from the Birthday Party to prove the argumentation that the early works of Pinter belong to the works of The Theatre of the Absurd. And we shall see how Pinter succeeded and made great contribution to The Theatre of the Absurd.