Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Joe Orton
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Black humor
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: England
- Genres: Drama, Farce, Comedy, Dark comedy
- Subjects: Values, 1960’s, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, Middle classes, England or English people, Illegitimacy, Ethics, Satire
- Locales: England
Characters Discussed
Kathy (Kath), a dowdy Englishwoman in early middle age. An outwardly respectable symbol of bourgeois life and values, Kath is a woman with an illegitimate child in her past. She lives with her father in a small home, and her passion for the young lodger she takes in forms one of the play’s central story lines. Although she makes frequent protestations regarding her own morality and honor, she is at heart selfish and easily able to rationalize her less-than-respectable actions. This attitude typifies the play’s portrait of the British middle class.
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