Booktopia - Look Back in Anger, John Osborne, 9780571038480

Look Back in Anger

By: John Osborne

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ISBN: 9780571038480

Format: Paperback
Published: July 2005

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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'.

To have done this at all would be a signal 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 the stage - the drift towards anarchy, the instinctive leftishness, the automatic rejection of 'official' attitudes, the surrealist sense of humour (Jimmy describes a pansy friend as 'a female Emily Bronte'), the casual promiscuity, the sense of lacking a crusade worth fighting for and, underlying all these, the determination that no one who does shall go unmourned.