Shaw's Heartbreak House & Osborne's West Of Suez

Shaw's Heartbreak House & Osborne's West Of Suez PDF Author: Shaw's
Publisher: The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop
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Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Shaw's Heartbreak House & Osborne's West Of Suez

Shaw's Heartbreak House & Osborne's West Of Suez PDF Author: Shaw's
Publisher: The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop
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Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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John Osborne

John Osborne PDF Author: Peter Whitebrook
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783198761
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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This book has been nominated for both the Sheridan Morley Prize for biography, and the Theatre Book Prize. A story of a man whose star rose very quickly and very early, and fell slowly and inexorably. A story of a man who knew himself perhaps too well, but not particularly wisely. It is exhilarating, perplexing and tragic. This new biography offers the most rounded portrait of Osborne yet seen. By embedding him in a social and cultural as well as a biographical context, Whitebrook presents Osborne in a way that has not been attempted before. It is the first book to properly explore the importance of his early collaborative work with Anthony Creighton, his lasting friendship with Pamela Lane, and his deep spiritual beliefs. It reveals the autobiographical background to Look Back in Anger and Watch It Come Down and places his literary achievement within a quintessentially English tradition. Seldom has a dramatist so compulsively revealed so much of himself – his flaws, his anxieties, his passion and his hatred – as John Osborne. His was a dazzlingly high-octane performance and in a succession of increasingly ambitious plays written during the 50s and 60s, he was able to unite a profound, intuitive intelligence with a caustically honest depth of feeling. By refusing to submit to caution, he laid bare in some of the most poetic and incendiary language heard in the 20th-century theatre, not only his own struggles and contradictions but those of the era. Almost single-handedly, he made the theatre important again. Catapulted from obscurity to being the icon of his age when he was only twenty-five, Osborne was at the height of his fame equally celebrated and derided as ‘the Angry Young Man’. John Osborne: ‘Anger is not about’ examines his fractious, often chaotic personal life against the social and political background of his times. It provides an invigorating insight into his complex, often anguished personality and a fresh critical assessment of his writing. A vivid account not only of what it was like to be John Osborne, loyal and generous, scathing and brutal, but what it was like to be so restlessly a creative artist in the latter 20th century. Click here to read an exclusive extract in The Independent

Plays in Review, 1956-1980

Plays in Review, 1956-1980 PDF Author: Gareth Lloyd Evans
Publisher: London : Batsford Academic and Educational
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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International Dictionary of Theatre: Playwrights

International Dictionary of Theatre: Playwrights PDF Author: Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher: Chicago : St. James Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1250

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A dictionary of playwrights which contains 485 entries, each of which includes biographical information on the playwright, complete lists of published works (with dates of performance) and a bibliography of critical studies on the playwright.

File on Osborne

File on Osborne PDF Author: Malcolm Page
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Play Index

Play Index PDF Author: Dorothy Herbert West
Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Revolutions in Modern English Drama

Revolutions in Modern English Drama PDF Author: Katharine Worth
Publisher: London : Bell
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Encounter

Encounter PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Encounter

Encounter PDF Author: Stephen Spender
Publisher:
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Category : Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Contemporary Dramatists

Contemporary Dramatists PDF Author: D. L. Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Saint James Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 818

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