Talk:The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
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Pedantic, I know edit
...but I removed the statement that "Tressell" was a pun on the trestle table. It isn't a pun - puns rely on soundalikes to provide humour. It's a reference though - like bashem and grinder. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.96.164.105 (talk) 01:09, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
"Homophones are often used to create puns."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophone
2A00:23C5:B382:B301:8826:FD66:2AC5:475 (talk) 23:20, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Adaptations edit
The text about the Tom MacLennan version included the sentence: "The adaptation was unusual because of its small cast -six actors playing all main characters." This is true neither of stage adaptations of Tressell's novel (Stephen Lowe's version was written for seven actors), nor of theatre adaptations in general. Skeowsha (talk) 22:50, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
George Orwell edit
Further to the reference (4.) that mentions Orwell's regard for this novel. In chapter three of "Keep the Aspidistra Flying", that Orwell's novel mentions that Gordon Comstock as a budding schoolboy poet and an associated tendency to his being "unreasonable", had become enchanted by the tale of the "starving carpenter who pawns everything but sticks to his aspidistra ... flower of England."120.17.156.236 (talk) 07:28, 12 January 2023 (UTC)