Joe Orton: A CasebookFrancesca Coppa 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Joe OrtonA Chronology | 11 |
Camp as the Bacchae of the 1960s 27 | 27 |
of Joe Orton and Caryl Churchill | 69 |
Is There a Queer Tradition and is Orton in | 85 |
Ortons Black Camp | 95 |
A Coloured Girl Reading Proust | 141 |
A Conversation with John Alderton and Leonie Orton | 155 |
Contributors | 171 |
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