- Plays, English drama, British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author), Married people
Osborne led the surge of the 'angry young men' with this play about a disaffected young man railing against what he sees as the sterility of middle class married life in post-war Britain.
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Intimate, prestige, earnest and character-led.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- John Osborne
- First published
- 1957
- Pages
- 96
- Publisher
- Dramatic Pub. Co., Evans Plays, Evans Bros
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140481754
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