What The Butler Saw

Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472536662

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What The Butler Saw by Joe Orton Pdf

"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)

Author : E. S. Turner
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571295180

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What the Butler Saw by E. S. Turner Pdf

'A book which goes on a special shelf in my library.' P.G. Wodehouse What the Butler Saw (1962) is one of E.S. Turner's most pertinent and illuminating 'social histories', an exploration of the 'upstairs/downstairs' relationship across three centuries of English life. Drawing on literature, contemporary accounts and household manuals, Turner describes in fascinating detail how it came to be that the upper classes felt a need for an ever larger household staff, engaged in every imaginable form of drudgery; and, accordingly, how those in service - from high to low, butler to footman, housemaid to au pair - had to give satisfaction to their masters and mistresses while also, on occasions, contending with physical blows, tantrums, and (in the cases of some unfortunate servant girls) threats to their virtue.

Author : Dale Wasserman
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573613435

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wasserman Pdf

During his fraudulent stay at a mental institution, a charming rogue invokes the head nurse's antagonism by inciting revolution among the inmates

Author : David N. Durant
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0312195699

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Where Queen Elizabeth Slept and What the Butler Saw by David N. Durant Pdf

Explores how people lived, what they ate, how they spoke, how they dressed, what games they played, and how their homes looked.

Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408176443

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What The Butler Saw by Joe Orton Pdf

"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)

Author : James Still
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Butlers
ISBN : 1583422293

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Looking Over the President's Shoulder by James Still Pdf

Playbook

Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472517517

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Loot by Joe Orton Pdf

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.

Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781538765494

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Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Pdf

This acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from an award-winning author "pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale" and includes a foreword by N. K. Jemisin (John Green, New York Times). When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions. Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith . . . and a startling vision of human destiny.

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307576187

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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Pdf

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.

Author : Wil Haygood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476753270

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The Butler by Wil Haygood Pdf

This mesmerizing companion book to the award-winning film, The Butler traces the Civil Rights Movement and explores crucial moments of twentieth century American history through the eyes of Eugene Allen—a White House butler who served eight presidents over the course of thirty-four years. During the presidencies of Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan, Eugene Allen was a butler in the most famous of residences: the White House. An African American who came of age during the era of Jim Crow, Allen served tea and supervised buffets while also witnessing some of the most momentous decisions made during the second half of the twentieth century, including Lyndon B. Johnson’s work during the Civil Rights Movement and Ronald Reagan getting tough on apartheid. But even as Allen witnessed the Civil Rights legislation develop, his family, friends, and neighbors were still contending with Jim Crow America. Timely, “poignant and powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) The Butler also explores Eugene Allen and his family’s background along with the history of African Americans in Hollywood and also features a foreword by the film’s director Lee Daniels.

Author : Blake Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Dystopias
ISBN : 0985023503

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Sky Saw by Blake Butler Pdf

Another disturber from the author of Nothing and There Is No Year.

Author : Joe Orton,Peter Willes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0416073905

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Funeral games by Joe Orton,Peter Willes Pdf

Author : John Lahr
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781453288757

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Prick Up Your Ears by John Lahr Pdf

DIVThis mesmerizing story of playwright and author Joe Orton’s brief and remarkable life was named book of the year by Truman Capote and Nobel Prize–winning novelist Patrick White /divDIV Told with precision and extensive detail, Prick Up Your Ears is the engrossing biography of playwright and novelist Joe Orton. Orton’s public career spanned only three years (1964–1967), but his work made a lasting mark on the international stage. From Entertaining Mr. Sloane to his career-making Loot, Orton’s plays often shocked, sometimes outraged, and always captivated audiences with their dark yet farcical cynicism. A rising star and undeniable talent, Orton left much undone when he was bludgeoned to death by his lover, Kenneth Halliwell, who had educated Orton and also dreamed of becoming a famous writer. /divDIV /divDIVPrick Up Your Ears was the basis for the distinguished 1987 film of the same name, directed by Stephen Frears, with a screenplay by Alan Bennett, and starring Gary Oldman and Vanessa Redgrave. A brilliant, page-turning examination of the dueling forces behind Orton’s work, Prick Up Your Ears secured the playwright’s reputation as a great twentieth-century artist./div

Author : Jonathan Kaplan
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802142788

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Contact Wounds by Jonathan Kaplan Pdf

The author of The Dressing Station offers a powerful memoir of the author's experiences in a combat-zone hospital in Iraq, sharing stories of his father's experiences as a surgeon on the battlefield in World War II. Reprint.

Author : Wil Haygood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781925030389

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Butler: A Witness to History by Wil Haygood Pdf

From Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow Wil Haygood comes a mesmerizing inquiry into the life of Eugene Allen, the butler who ignited a nation's imagination and inspired a major motion picture: The Butler: A Witness to History, the highly anticipated film that stars six Oscar winners, including Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey (honorary and nominee), Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Redgrave, and Robin Williams; as well as Oscar nominee Terrence Howard, Mariah Carey, John Cusack, Lenny Kravitz, James Marsden, David Oyelowo, Alex Pettyfer, Alan Rickman, and Liev Schreiber. With a foreword by the Academy Award nominated director Lee Daniels, The Butler not only explores Allen's life and service to eight American Presidents, from Truman to Reagan, but also includes an essay, in the vein of James Baldwin’s jewel The Devil Finds Work, that explores the history of black images on celluloid and in Hollywood, and fifty-seven pictures of Eugene Allen, his family, the presidents he served, and the remarkable cast of the movie.