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In this penetrating analysis of Orton's writing, Susan Rusinko uses as a point of departure the image of Orton as clown and trickster, following in the tradition of the Lord of Misrule. She intersperses her analysis of Orton's three landmark plays with commentary on his four short plays for radio and television (two later revised for the stage), his posthumously published novel, his published but unproduced film script for the Beatles, his sketch for Kenneth Tynan's Oh, Calcutta!, and his renowned Diaries, published posthumously in 1986, wherein much of the nature of his outsider's take on society is revealed. Rusinko argues that Orton, Pinter, and Stoppard belong to the tradition of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, as reinvigorators of stage language not in evidence since the Renaissance. She places Orton in the rebellious tradition of such writers as Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, William Wycherley, and William Congreve, noting that, like that of the emigres Joyce and Beckett, Orton's rebellion took shape only when, at the age of 17, he left his middle-class hometown of Leicester for good.
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- Title Joe Orton
- Author Susan Rusinko
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 137
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Twayne Publishers
- Date 1995-09
- ISBN 9780805770346 / 0805770348
- Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.8 x 5.77 x 0.72 in (22.35 x 14.66 x 1.83 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Orton, Joe - Criticism and interpretation
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95010064
- Dewey Decimal Code 822.914
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