Look Back in Anger - Hardcover

Osborne, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571061842 ISBN 13: 9780571061846

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1957

Synopsis

Look Back in Anger

About this title

About the Author

John Osborne was born in London in 1929. His plays include Look Back in Anger (1956), The Entertainer (1957), Luther (1961), Inadmissible Evidence (1964), and A Patriot for Me (1966). Both Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer were adapted for film, and in 1963 Osborne won an Academy Award for his screenplay for Tom Jones. John Osborne died on 24 December 1994.

Review

Play in three acts by John Osborne, performed in 1956 and published in 1957. A published description of Osborne as an "angry young man" was extended to apply to an entire generation of disaffected young British writers who identified with the lower classes and viewed the upper classes and the established political institutions with disdain. Although the form of the play was not revolutionary, its content was unexpected. On stage for the first time were the 20- to 30-year-olds of Great Britain who had not participated in World War II and who found its aftermath lacking in promise. The hero, Jimmy Porter, has reached an uncomfortably marginal position on the border of the middle class, from which he can see the traditional possessors of privilege holding the better jobs and threatening his upward climb. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1957
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571061842
• ISBN 13: 9780571061846
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96