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Look Back in Anger (Faber Modern Classics Edition)

John Osborne

Look Back In Anger by John Osborne changed the course of English theatre in 1956, here issued into the launch list of Faber Modern Classics.

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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571322763
Date Published
02.04.2015
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Summary

Look Back in Anger transformed the face of British theatre; legend has it that audiences gasped at the sight of an ironing board on a London stage. John Osborne’s play launched the ‘angry young men’ movement, writers from working or middle class background who had become disillusioned with British society, were sick of contemporary theatre’s escapism, and wanted their work to reflect life as they knew it.

The play tells the story of a love triangle between Jimmy, an intelligent and educated man of working class background, his upper-middle-class wife Alison, and her superior and disdainful best-friend Helena. Jimmy hates his wife’s background, almost as much as he hates himself. Dark and savage, Look Back in Anger makes readers and audiences re-examine what was once called ‘the good life’.

JohnOsborne

John Osborne was born in London in 1929. Before becoming a playwright he worked as a journalist, assistant stage manager and repertory theatre actor. Seeing an advertisement for new plays in The Stage in 1956, Osborne submitted Look Back in Anger. Not only was the play produced, but it was to become considered as the turning point in post-war British…

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