Joe Orton

A Casebook

AvFrancesca Coppa

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

Del i serien Casebooks on Modern Dramatists

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Beskrivning

While writers, dramatists and film-makers have already found inspiration in Orton's colourful life story, this Casebook comprises the first collection of scholarly criticism to investigate the works, life and legacy of the controversial playwright.

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Utgivningsdatum:2002-10-25
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:510 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Casebooks on Modern Dramatists
Antal sidor:188
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN:9780815336273

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Introduction; Joe Orton—A Chronology; Part One: Texts The Creation of Comedy in Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane; The Good and Faithful Servant: Orton’s Bitter Farce; You Say You Want a Revolution: Joe Orton’s The Erpingham Camp as the Bacchae of the 1960s; "What the Butler Did See": Joe Orton and Oscar Wilde; Sex and Subversion in Jane Austen and Joe Orton; A Normal Family: Alternative Communities in the Plays of Joe Orton and Caryl Churchill; Part Two: Contexts Is There a Queer Tradition, and is Orton in it? Orton’s Black Camp; Sensation and Sensibility: Joe Orton’s Diaries; Saint Joe: Orton as Homosexual Rebel; A Coloured Girl Reading Proust; A Conversation With John Alderton and Leonie Orton; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index