“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
John Osborne
Standard Name: Osborne, John
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Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Cookson | 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... |
Literary responses | Lesley Storm | 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... |
Literary responses | Shelagh Delaney | 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... |
Literary responses | Shelagh Delaney | 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... |
Occupation | Ann Jellicoe | 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... |
politics | Shelagh Delaney | 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
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 13 |
Author summary | Dodie Smith | 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... |
Publishing | Ann Jellicoe | 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... |
Textual Production | Nell Dunn | The critical opinion that ND
belonged to the school of Angry Young Men associated her with Alan Sillitoe
, John Osborne
, and John Braine
. Drabble, Margaret, and Nell Dunn. “Introduction”. Poor Cow, Virago, 1988, p. xi - xvi. ix |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | 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... |
Textual Production | Dodie Smith | 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
... |
Textual Production | Dodie Smith | 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... |
Textual Production | Molly Keane | An acting edition was published by Samuel French
that year. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Michelene Wandor | In its original form, says Greenhalgh, this book reflects MW
's roles as playwright, reviewer, and Leavisite
student of English literature. Greenhalgh, Susanne. “A Review of Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender by Michelene Wandor”. Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 13 , No. 1, 2003, pp. 125-6. 125 |
Timeline
1951: The title of Leslie Allen Paul's memoirs,...
Writing climate item
1951
The title of Leslie Allen Paul
's memoirs, Angry Young Man, provided the term Angry Young Men, applied in newspapers and then by critics to a group of largely working-class, socially rebellious, young...
8 May 1956: John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger opened...
Writing climate item
8 May 1956
John Osborne
's play Look Back in Anger opened at the Royal Court Theatre
in London; within a few weeks, on 28 May, Colin Wilson
published The Outsider, a romanticizing study of the...
10 April 1957: Playwright John Osborne's The Entertainer...
Building item
10 April 1957
Playwright John Osborne
's The Entertainer was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre
in London, with Laurence Olivier
playing the lead.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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