Look Back In Anger

Osborne, John

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John Osborne’s ‘Look Back in Anger’ changed the course of English theatre. It presents post-war youth as it really was and expresses the mood of its time, the mood of the ‘angry young man’.

Publish Date: 02/04/2015

Description

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’.

Additional information

Weight 132 g
Dimensions 195 × 130 × 19 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

xiv, 126

Language

English

Edition

Faber Modern Classics

Dewey

822.914 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K