Entertaining Mr Sloane by Orton, Joe

Entertaining Mr Sloane (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781472527974)

Vendor: Joe Orton
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Format: Paperback
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Entertaining Mr Sloane by Orton, Joe

Entertaining Mr Sloane

$15.95
Entertaining Mr Sloane by Orton, Joe

Entertaining Mr Sloane

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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Published fifty years after the premiere of Entertaining Mr Sloane in 1964, and with a new introduction, this anniversary edition offers an opportunity to reappraise Joe Orton's reputation, and the status of his first major play, from a twenty-first century perspective.

When it first appeared in the Swinging Sixties, Orton's satire on social and sexual hypocrisy both scandalized and delighted audiences. Its mix of sexuality and violence was explosive. Within a year, the play was being performed around the world and went on to be adapted for film and television, establishing Orton as a major voice and this play as one of the most ground-breaking of the century. This anniversary edition features previously unpublished material from the Joe Orton Archive, an interview with director Nick Bagnall, and an introduction by Emma Parker, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester.

Author: Joe Orton
ISBN-10: 1472527976
ISBN-13: 9781472527974
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 07/17/2014
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.60d
By Joe Orton
By Joe Orton
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Joe Orton (1933-1967) was an English playwright noted for his black comedies, which combine genteel dialogue with violent and shocking action. He delighted in shocking audiences by breaking taboos surrounding sexuality and death in conventionally structured 'black' farces involving epigrammatic dialogue and frenetic, convoluted plots. His plays include Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964), Loot (1965) and What the Butler Saw (1969).

Emma Parker is based at the University of Leicester where she specialises in post-war British literature and contemporary fiction, particularly women's writing. Her research focuses on issues relating to gender and sexuality, feminism and queer theory. Dr Parker is also responsible for the Orton Archive at the University of Leicester.

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