John Osborne's Look Back in Anger
Aleks Sierz, "John Osborne's Look Back in Anger"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0826492029, 0826492010 | EPUB | pages: 136 | 0.2 mb
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0826492029, 0826492010 | EPUB | pages: 136 | 0.2 mb
Look Back in Anger is one of the few works of drama that are indisputably central to British culture in general, and its name is one of the most well-known in postwar cultural history. Its premiere in 1956 sparked off the first "new wave" of kitchen-sink drama and the cultural phenomenon of the angry young man. The play's anti-hero, Jimmy Porter, became the spokesman of a generation. Osborne's play is a key milestone in "new writing" for British theatre, and the Royal Court-which produced the play-has since become one of the most important new writing theatres in the UK.