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John Osborne: "Anger Is Not About..."
Peter Whitebrook
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Description for John Osborne: "Anger Is Not About..."
Hardcover. A new biography of John Osborne, published to coincide with major revivals of his seminal plays in 2015 and 2016, written by a well-known cultural journalist and drama critic. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 42. Weight in Grams: 800.
Seldom has a dramatist so compulsively revealed so much of himself, his flaws, his anxieties, his passion and his hatred, as John Osborne. By any standards, his was a dazzlingly high-octane performance. In a succession of increasingly ambitious plays written during the 1950s and 1960s, the era of social and political consensus giving way to doubt, he attempted to unite a profound, intuitive intelligence with a caustically honest depth of feeling. 'To be tentative,' he reflected, 'is beyond me.' By refusing to submit to caution, he laid bare in some of the most poetic and incendiary language heard in the ... Read more
Seldom has a dramatist so compulsively revealed so much of himself, his flaws, his anxieties, his passion and his hatred, as John Osborne. By any standards, his was a dazzlingly high-octane performance. In a succession of increasingly ambitious plays written during the 1950s and 1960s, the era of social and political consensus giving way to doubt, he attempted to unite a profound, intuitive intelligence with a caustically honest depth of feeling. 'To be tentative,' he reflected, 'is beyond me.' By refusing to submit to caution, he laid bare in some of the most poetic and incendiary language heard in the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oberon Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783198771
SKU
V9781783198771
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About Peter Whitebrook
Peter Whitebrook was born in London and has written and broadcast widely on the theatre. Based in Edinburgh for many years, he was a cultural journalist and drama critic for The Scotsman newspaper. He covered several years of the Edinburgh Festival and won a Fringe First award for his co-adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. As a broadcaster, ... Read more
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