Look Back in Anger
Title | Look Back in Anger PDF eBook |
Author | John Osborne |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 119 |
Release | 1963 |
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Look Back in Anger
Title | Look Back in Anger PDF eBook |
Author | John Osborne |
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Total Pages | |
Release | 1980 |
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Look Back in Anger
Title | Look Back in Anger PDF eBook |
Author | John Osborne |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 97 |
Release | 1982-11-18 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0140481753 |
Jimmy Porter, frustrated and bitter in his drab flat, lives with his middle-class wife, Alison. Also sharing the flat is Cliff who keeps things tenuously together. Alison's friend Helen arrives and persuades her to leave Jimmy only to fall for him herself. When Alison becomes pregnant, Helen leaves the couple. This play originally opened at the Royal Court Theatre in 1956 and has since proved to be a milestone in the history of theater.
John Osborne's Look Back in Anger
Title | John Osborne's Look Back in Anger PDF eBook |
Author | Aleks Sierz |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 135 |
Release | 2008-03-10 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1441139559 |
Look Back in Anger is one of the few works of drama that are indisputably central to British culture in general, and its name is one of the most well-known in postwar cultural history. Its premiere in 1956 sparked off the first "new wave" of kitchen-sink drama and the cultural phenomenon of the angry young man. The play's anti-hero, Jimmy Porter, became the spokesman of a generation. Osborne's play is a key milestone in "new writing" for British theatre, and the Royal Court-which produced the play-has since become one of the most important new writing theatres in the UK.
Don't Look Back in Anger
Title | Don't Look Back in Anger PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Rachel |
Publisher | Trapeze |
Total Pages | 528 |
Release | 2020-09-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781409180722 |
The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the 'Swinging Sixties' had art, comedy, fashion, film, football, literature and music interwoven into a blooming of national self-confidence. It was the decade of Lad Culture and Girl Power; of Blur vs Oasis. When fashion runways shone with British talent, Young British Artists became household names, football was 'coming home' and British film went worldwide. From Old Labour's defeat in 1992 through to New Labour's historic landslide in 1997, Don't Look Back In Anger chronicles the Cool Britannia age when the country united through a resurgence of patriotism and a celebration of all things British. But it was also an era of false promises and misplaced trust, when the weight of substance was based on the airlessness of branding, spin and the first stirrings of celebrity culture. A decade that started with hope then ended with the death of the 'people's princess' and 9/11 - an event that redefined a new world order. Through sixty-eight voices that epitomise the decade - including Tony Blair, John Major, Noel Gallagher, Damon Albarn, Tracey Emin, Keith Allen, Meera Syal, David Baddiel, Irvine Welsh and Steve Coogan - we re-live the epic highs and crashing lows of one of the most eventful periods in British history. Today, in an age where identity dominates the national agenda, Don't Look Back In Anger is a necessary and compelling historical document.
Déjàvu
Title | Déjàvu PDF eBook |
Author | John Osborne |
Publisher | Dramatic Publishing |
Total Pages | 116 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780871292377 |
Look Back in Gender (Routledge Revivals)
Title | Look Back in Gender (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Michelene Wandor |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 237 |
Release | 2014-07-11 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1317606140 |
In this challenging book, first published in 1987, Michelene Wandor looks at the best-known plays in the thirty years prior to publication, from Look Back in Anger onwards. Wandor investigates the representation of the family and different forms of sexuality in these plays and re-reviews them from a perspective that throws into sharp relief the function of gender as an important determinant of plot, setting and the portrayal of character. Juxtaposing the period before 1968, when statutory censorship was still in force, with the years following its abolition, Wandor scrutinises the key plays of, among others, Osborne, Pinter, Wesker, Arden, and Delaney. Each one is analysed in terms of its social context: the influence of World War II, the testing of gender roles, the development of the Welfare State and changes in family patterns, and the impact of feminist, Left-wing and gay politics. Throughout the period, two generations of playwrights and theatregoers transformed the theatre into a forum in which they could articulate and explore the interaction of their interpersonal relationships with the wider political sphere. These changes are explored in this title, which will allow readers to re-evaluate their view of post-war British drama.