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Complete Plays (Methuen Paperback)

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Description for Complete Plays (Methuen Paperback) paperback. Formerly part of the "World Dramatists" series of play collections by classic and modern playwrights, including foreign works in workable and accurate translations, this title and seven others are reissued in a new format under the heading, "World Classics". Series: World Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 29. Weight in Grams: 362.
I suppose I'm a believer in Original Sin. People are profoundly bad but irresistibly funny' Joe Orton. This volume contains everything that Orton wrote for the theatre, radio and television from his first play in 1964, The Ruffian on the Stair, up to his violent death in 1967 at the age of 34. It includes his major successes: Entertaining Mr Sloane, which 'made more blood boil that any other British play in the last ten years' (The Times); Loot, 'a Freudian nightmare', which sports with superstitions about death - as well as life; his farce masterpiece, What the Butler Saw; ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
Methuen
Condition
New
Series
World Classics
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780413346100
SKU
9780413346100
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About Joe Orton
Joe Orton (1933-1967) was an English playwright noted for his black comedies, which combine genteel dialogue with violent and shocking action. Orton left home at 16 to train as an actor. His subversive style of humour first revealed itself in a bizarre incident in 1962, when he and his lover, Kenneth Halliwell were jailed for defacing library books. The two ... Read more

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