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Binding: Paperback
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Penguin
Manufacturer: Penguin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: November 18, 1982
Publisher: Penguin
Sales Rank: 645118
Studio: Penguin
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Look Back in Anger is an autobiographical play by John Osborne. The main character is Jimmy, a miserable young man. He rants and raves through the entire play, verbally abusing everyone he comes in contact with and taking delight in making them miserable as well. He has no redeeming characteristics at all (unless one wants to say he is "honest" with his feelings), and ranges from detestable to pathetic (his lame attempts at "bears and squirrels" cutesy talk with his wife, for example).
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Osborne, the great so-called radical, grew to be a reactionary, full of ideas about 'England' and her past glories. He aged into the image of what his protagonist Jimmy Porter ranted against. Should we be surprised, or was Jimmy Porter headed in this direction? Everyone, according to Jimmy, is a fake, but who would embody the real thing if he were to come along? When were things better, if today is so bloody awful? Playwright David Hare created a female version of this type of nasty negativity in ... Read More
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Writer John Osborne presents in Look Back in Anger an antithesis to the `drawing room dramas' of the period by writers such as Noel Coward which were popular in the 1950's. These dramas often featured polished and wealthy characters from the middle and upper classes, at their leisure within their homes and drawing rooms. Such plays fuelled what one newspaper reviewer from `The Express' termed as the `Illusion of Comfort' which pervaded the 50's.
After reading or watching Osborne's play no ... Read More
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"Look Back in Anger", first performed at London's Royal Court Theatre in 1956, is often cited as marking a theatrical revolution. The British theatre of the early fifties, dominated by playwrights like Noel Coward and Terence Rattigan, was widely regarded as genteel, well-mannered and middle-class. John Osborne's play can be seen as a deliberate reaction against those values. Its plot is conventional enough. It centres around the stormy marriage of a young couple, Jimmy and Alison Porter, who separate ... Read More
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"Look Back in Anger" is about a young man, Jimmy, a working-class stiff/passionate philosopher. Jimmy treats his wife and best friend, Cliff, terribly, and in real life he would be insufferable, but on paper (and on stage, I'm sure) he's pretty engaging. His dialogue was well-written, but when it came to the other characters, author John Osborne has a real tin ear. Here's a young woman, Helena, advising Jimmy's wife to get out of the marriage:
"Alison, listen to me. You've got to make up your ... Read More
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