While writers, dramatists and film-makers have already found inspiration in Orton's colourful life story, this Casebook comprises the first collection of scholarly criticism to investigate the works, life and legacy of the controversial playwright.
Introduction; Joe Orton—A Chronology; Part One: Texts The Creation of Comedy in Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane; The Good and Faithful Servant: Orton’s Bitter Farce; You Say You Want a Revolution: Joe Orton’s The Erpingham Camp as the Bacchae of the 1960s; "What the Butler Did See": Joe Orton and Oscar Wilde; Sex and Subversion in Jane Austen and Joe Orton; A Normal Family: Alternative Communities in the Plays of Joe Orton and Caryl Churchill; Part Two: Contexts Is There a Queer Tradition, and is Orton in it? Orton’s Black Camp; Sensation and Sensibility: Joe Orton’s Diaries; Saint Joe: Orton as Homosexual Rebel; A Coloured Girl Reading Proust; A Conversation With John Alderton and Leonie Orton; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index
Biography
Francesca Coppa
