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References
- ↑ Francesca Coppa (2003). Joe Orton: A Casebook. Psychology Press. pp. 67–. ISBN 978-0-8153-3627-3.
- ↑ "Joe Orton Life and Work". www.joeorton.org.
- ↑ Lahr, John. Prick up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton. New York: Knopf, 1978, p. 126. ISBN 0394501535
- ↑ Orton, Joe. The Visitors and Fred and Madge. New York: Grove Press, 1999, p. iv ISBN 0-8021-3628-1
- ↑ Orton, Joe; Orton, Joe Fred and Madge (17 October 1998). "The visitors ; Fred and Madge : two plays". New York : Grove Press ; [Emeryville, Calif.] : Publishers Group West [distributor] – via Internet Archive.
- 1 2 Elaine Showalter (1998). "Miss Fleur gave me the most awful restyle". London Review of Books . 20 (24).
- 1 2 Stephen Grecco (1999). "Review: Fred & Madge; The Visitors: Two Plays by Joe Orton". World Literature Today . 73: 336. doi:10.2307/40154757.
