What The Butler Saw
eBook - PDF

What The Butler Saw

  1. 96 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

What The Butler Saw

About this book

"Joe Orton's last play, What the Butler Saw, will live to be accepted as a comedy classic of English literature" (Sunday Telegraph) The chase is on in this breakneck comedy of licensed insanity, from the moment when Dr Prentice, a psychoanalyst interviewing a prospective secretary, instructs her to undress. The plot of What the Butler Saw contains enough twists and turns, mishaps and changes of fortune, coincidences and lunatic logic to furnish three or four conventional comedies. But however the six characters in search of a plot lose the thread of the action - their wits or their clothes - their verbal self-possession never deserts them. Hailed as a modern comedy every bit as good as Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Orton's play is regularly produced, read and studied. What the Butler Saw was Orton's final play."He is the Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility" (Observer)

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Information

Publisher
Methuen Drama
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781472536662
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Drama
Index
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Table of contents

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  2. What the Butler Saw