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Joe Orton
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Standard Name: Orton, Joe
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Shelagh Delaney | SD
is to an unusual extent identified with her successful first play and with nothing else. In 2010 Jeanette Winterson
wrote an exasperated piece on her entitled My hero: Shelagh Delaney. A Taste of... |
| Reception | Michèle Roberts | A Piece of the Night, however, was joint winner (with a biography of Joe Orton
) of the annual Gay News literary award. MR
framed the certificate to hang in her bedroom. “Professor Michele Roberts”. University of East Anglia. |
| Textual Features | Caryl Churchill | Influenced by Joe Orton
's Entertaining Mr. Sloane and Eva Figes
' Patriarchal Attitudes, the play has been read as critiquing the destructive effects of private property. Kritzer, Amelia Howe. The Plays of Caryl Churchill: Theatre of Empowerment. Macmillan, 1991. 62 Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. Methuen, 1985. 4 |
| Textual Production | Nina Bawden | NB
returned to a surname she had used in Familiar Passions for the protagonist of a new novel, Ruffian on the Stair: the almost-centenarian Samuel Mudd. The title (quoted from a poem by W. E. Henley |
| Textual Production | Caryl Churchill | The play was commissioned by Michael Codron
, an influencial theatre producer who had backed Harold Pinter
and Joe Orton
. Kritzer, Amelia Howe. The Plays of Caryl Churchill: Theatre of Empowerment. Macmillan, 1991. 61 |
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