What the Butler Saw (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Joe Orton
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Farce
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: A psychiatric clinic in England
- Genres: Drama, Farce
- Subjects: Values, 1960’s, Sex or sexuality, England or English people, Blackmail, Psychiatry or psychiatrists, Clothing or dress
- Locales: England
Characters Discussed
Dr. Prentice, a middle-aged psychiatrist. Prentice is an unscrupulous man who does not hesitate to use his position as a doctor to seduce Geraldine Barclay, who is applying for a job as his secretary. He also refuses to tell the truth, despite the trouble this causes Geraldine with Dr. Rance. It was this same lustful lack of scruples that led him to interfere with an unknown chambermaid at the Station Hotel many years before, resulting in her conception of Geraldine and Nick.
Dr. Rance, a psychiatrist sent from the government to check on how...
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