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John James Osborne (12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, and entrepreneur, who is regarded as one of the most influential figures in post-war theatre.
John Osborne (born December 12, 1929, London, England—died December 24, 1994, Shropshire) was a British playwright and film producer whose Look Back in Anger (performed 1956) ushered in a new movement in British drama and made him known as the first of the Angry Young Men.
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Look Back in Anger (1956) is a realist play written by John Osborne. It focuses on the life and marital struggles of an intelligent and educated but disaffected young man of working-class origin, Jimmy Porter, and his equally competent yet impassive upper-middle-class wife Alison.
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Look Back in Anger, 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.
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Oct 8, 2021 · The paper examines Osborne's play Look Back in Anger as a perfect critique of the twentieth-century British society. It explores the reasons for the protagonist's rage and the ways the characters reflect their anger onto other people.
Learn about the life and career of John Osborne, one of the most influential British playwrights of the 1950s and 1960s. He wrote classics such as Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer, and Luther, and won an Oscar for Tom Jones.
Dec 31, 2014 · John James Osborne was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, and entrepreneur. Born in London, he lived in poverty for several years before his third play, Look Back in Anger (1956), brought him national fame.
