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Student Editions Ser.: Loot by Joe Orton (2006, Perfect)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBloomsbury Publishing

ISBN-100413567605

ISBN-139780413567604

eBay Product ID (ePID)57226807

Product Key Features

Number of Pages144 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameLoot

Publication Year2006

SubjectGeneral, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaDrama

AuthorJoe Orton

SeriesStudent Editions Ser.

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight5.3 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal822.9/14

Edition DescriptionStudent edition,New Edition

Synopsis"It's Oscar Wilde crossed with Monty Python."-USA Today Loot'is a wild parody of detective fiction, adding the blackest farce and jabs at established ideas on death, the police, religion, and justice. This is the'student edition of Joe Orton's classic farce, first produced in London in 1966. It offers a plot summary, full commentary, character notes, and questions for study, along with a chronology and bibliography., A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour and have returned to Hal's home to hide-out with the loot. Hal's mother has just died and the pair put the money in her coffin, hiding the body elsewhere in the house. With the arrival of Inspector Truscott, the thickened plot turns topsy-turvy. Playing with all the conventions of popular farce, Orton creates a world gone mad and examines in detail English attitudes at mid-century. The play has been called a Freudian nightmare, which sports with superstitions about death - and life. It is regularly produced in professional and amateur productions. First produced in London in 1966, Loot was hailed as "the most genuinely quick-witted, pungent and sprightly entertainment by a new, young British playwright for a decade" ( Sunday Telegraph ). The Student Edition offers a plot summary, full commentary, character notes and questions for study, besides a chronology and bibliography., 'A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour and have returned to Hal''s home to hide-out with the loot. Hal''s mother has just died and the pair put the money in her coffin, hiding the body elsewhere in the house. With the arrival of Inspector Truscott, the thickened plot turns topsy-turvy. Playing with all the conventions of popular farce, Orton creates a world gone mad and examines in detail English attitudes at mid-century. The play has been called a Freudian nightmare, which sports with superstitions about death - and life. It is regularly produced in professional and amateur productions. First produced in London in 1966, Loot was hailed as ''the most genuinely quick-witted, pungent and sprightly entertainment by a new, young British playwright for a decade'' ( Sunday Telegraph ). The Student Edition offers a plot summary, full commentary, character notes and questions for study, besides a chronology and bibliography.', A student edition of Joe Orton's black farce, with full introduction, commentary and questions for study.

LC Classification NumberPR6065.R7