Joe Orton
Subtitle: A Casebook (Casebooks on Modern Dramatists)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: October 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780815336273
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: from c 1900 -; 20th century; Gay & Lesbian; Orton, Joe, 1933-1967; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; United Kingdom, Great Britain; History; Drama; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Drama; Criticism and interpretation; Comedy; England; Homosexuality and literature; Orton, Joe
First sentence: Writing of a Genet novel in his diary, Joe Orton notes, "A combination of elegance and crudity is always ridiculous."