Look Back in Anger: A Play in Three Acts

Osborne, John

ISBN 10: 0571038484 / ISBN 13: 9780571038480

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 1973

About this Item

Faber Paper Covered Editions. Printed in Great Britain. Slight handling wear, penciling throughout, tape remnant ghostings to inside rear cover, otherwise a tight solid softcover copy. 96pp. SB-38.

Seller Inventory # 037370

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Look Back in Anger: A Play in Three Acts
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571038484
• ISBN 13: 9780571038480
• Binding: Wraps
• Edition: Reprint
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Play
  • Theater

About this title

Synopsis

In 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre.

'Look Back in Anger presents post-war youth as it really is. To have done this at all would be a significant achievement; to have done it in a first play is a minor miracle. All the qualities are there, qualities one had despaired of ever seeing on stage - the drift towards anarchy, the instinctive leftishness, the automatic rejection of "official" attitudes, the surrealist sense of humour... the casual promiscuity, the sense of lacking a crusade worth fighting for and, underlying all these, the determination that no one who dies shall go unmourned.' Kenneth Tynan, Observer, 13 May 1956

'Look Back in Anger... has its inarguable importance as the beginning of a revolution in the British theatre, and as the central and most immediately influential expression of the mood of its time, the mood of the "angry young man".' John Russell Taylor

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.