John Osborne

She began this book while recovering from a nervous breakdown and trying to come to terms with her mother's death, their past relationship, and the discovery of her medical legacy from her father. She finished...

The play received rave reviews in England. The reviewer for the Times wrote: The Dialogue is consistently neat and pointed, and tense situations open smoothly into situations yet more tense; the Evening News...

The race issue received astonishingly little attention from reviewers, probably because SD was so far ahead of her time in acknowledging its existence. However, Colin MacInnes (himself homosexual and author of the novel City of...

SD is to an unusual extent identified with her successful first play and with nothing else. In 2010 Jeanette Winterson wrote an exasperated piece on her entitled My hero: Shelagh Delaney. A Taste of...

AJ had a long-standing professional relationship with the Royal Court Theatre . Around the time her play The Sport of My Mad Mother was performed at the Court, she became involved in the newly formed...

SD was arrested (along with John Osborne and Vanessa Redgrave ) when she took part in an anti-nuclear demonstration at Trafalgar Square with the Committee of 100 .

Dodie Smith, best known for writing the beloved children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956), began her career as a dramatist; she wrote a series of hit plays in the 1930s. In the 1940s...

The play opened in Cambridge because the Royal Court , despite their earlier supportiveness, wanted to test the waters before staging another Jellicoe play in London. AJ credits John Osborne for persuading them to produce...

The critical opinion that ND belonged to the school of Angry Young Men associated her with Alan Sillitoe , John Osborne , and John Braine . The fact that these were each, in different...

The title alludes to John Osborne 's runaway success Look Back in Anger, which opened in May 1956, introducing the Angry Young Men movement to the theatre. So does the cover, which shows a...

DS found herself increasingly out of step with the new drama being produced in London since the advent of the Angry Young Men. She could tolerate John Osborne and even admired Shelagh Delaney ...

Its three successive sequels all have titles beginning Look Back with . . .—very likely in deliberate opposition to John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger, the play she could blame for her...

An acting edition was published by Samuel French that year. Its failure was ascribed to coincidence in timing with John Osborne 's highly successful kitchen-sink play Look Back in Anger. That had in fact...

In its original form, says Greenhalgh, this book reflects MW 's roles as playwright, reviewer, and Leavisite student of English literature. The revised form considers the impact of feminism, socialism, and changing concepts of...