Inadmissible Evidence | An Overview of John Osborne’s Work
In the following essay, the critic gives an overview of John (James) Osborne’s work.
Prior to John Osborne’s arrival on the scene, the British theater consisted mainly of classics, melodramas, and drawing-room comedies. But in 1956, Osborne’s third play and first London-produced drama, Look Back in Anger, shocked audiences and “wiped the smugness off the frivolous face of English theatre,” as John Lahr put it in a New York Times Book Review article. “Strangely enough,” commented John Mortimer in the New York Times, “Look Back in Anger was, in shape, a conventional well-made play of the sort that might have been constructed by Noel...
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