Joe Orton

Name: Joe Orton
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By: C.W.E. Bigsby

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Hardcover | 1 November 2024

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74 Pages

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Though Ortonâs roots lay in traditions as diverse as those represented by such writers as Wycherley, Congreve, Wilde, Shaw, Carroll, Firbank, Feydeau, Beckett and Pinter, he developed a form of âanarchic farceâ which was very much his own â" hence the word âOrtonesqueâ. His work was deliberately subversive, not merely of the authority figures which he included in nearly all his plays, but of language and the congenialities of plot and character. Originally published in 1982, this study examines Ortonâs principal plays, but its main concern is to identify his aesthetic, to elaborate the nature and achievements of anarchic farce and to locate him in relation to the developments in contemporary literature and art which have formed essential components of a post-modern sensibility.

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