A Close Reading of Loot
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posted on 2018-02-14, 12:09 authored by Emma ParkerJoe Orton was a working-class, gay playwright whose outrageous black comedies scandalised theatre audiences in the 1960s. Emma Parker examines Orton’s satire on social and sexual convention by showing how the opening of Loot establishes the play’s central themes and dramatic techniques.
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British Library: Discovering Literature (website), 2017Author affiliation
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