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Author: John Osborne
First Published: 1981
Type of Work: Autobiography
Time of Work: 1929-1956
Setting: Great Britain and France
Principal Characters: John Osborne, Nellie Beatrice Grove Osborne, Thomas Godfrey Osborne, Annie Osborne, Adelina Rowena Grove, Queenie Grove Bates, Pamela Lane Osborne, Stella Linden, Patrick Desmond
Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
Subjects: Family or family life, Acting or actors, Journalism or journalists, Memory, Art or artists, Working class, Drama or dramatists, Theater, Students or student life

Along with Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, and David Hare, John Osborne is one of the most influential English playwrights of the period following World War II. With Look Back in Anger (1956), he is credited with revolutionizing the English theater. Jimmy Porter, the play’s antihero, spews out an endless torrent of venom against his wife, her family and friends, and society in general. The success of Look Back in Anger is said to have rudely awakened a somnolent British stage dominated by tepid drawing-room dramas and paved the way for a new...

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