num_pages: 93
description: 'Joe Orton's last play, What the Butler Saw, will live to be accepted as a comedy classic of English literature' - Frank Marcus, Sunday Telegraph'Orton's most savage onslaught on the way power and respectability are used. His decorous and elegant use of formal language while everything is as uninhibited as a pair of discarded knickers matches his situations to near perfection' - Nicholas de Jongh, The Guardian'He is the Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility' - Ronald Bryden, The Observer
language: English
title: What the Butler Saw
titlecomplete: What the Butler Saw
characters: Dr. Rance, Dr. Prentice, Geraldine Barclay, Mrs. Prentice, Sergeant Match, Nicholas Beckett
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, British Literature, Drama, Comedy, Humor, Literature, Read For School, Classics
ratings_count: 779
awards: awardedAt: 28800000
name: Obie
category: Best Foreign Play
publisher: Methuen Drama