In 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre. 'Look Back in Anger presents post-war youth as it really is. To have done this at all would be a significant achievement; to have done it in a first play is a minor miracle. All the qualities are there, qualities one had despaired of ever seeing on stage - the drift towards anarchy, the instinctive leftishness, the automatic rejection of "official" attitudes, the surrealist sense of humour... the casual promiscuity, the sense of lacking a ...
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In 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre. 'Look Back in Anger presents post-war youth as it really is. To have done this at all would be a significant achievement; to have done it in a first play is a minor miracle. All the qualities are there, qualities one had despaired of ever seeing on stage - the drift towards anarchy, the instinctive leftishness, the automatic rejection of "official" attitudes, the surrealist sense of humour... the casual promiscuity, the sense of lacking a crusade worth fighting for and, underlying all these, the determination that no one who dies shall go unmourned.' Kenneth Tynan, Observer, 13 May 1956 'Look Back in Anger... has its inarguable importance as the beginning of a revolution in the British theatre, and as the central and most immediately influential expression of the mood of its time, the mood of the "angry young man".' John Russell Taylor
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Add this copy of Look Back in Anger (Penguin Plays) to cart. $27.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Penguin Books.
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Add this copy of Look Back in Anger (Penguin Plays) [Paperback] Osborne, to cart. $40.00, very good condition, Sold by Twice Sold Tales rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ashfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Penguin Books.
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Very Good. 1957 Criterion hard cover-1st American Edition-2nd printing-newpaper print stain inside front cover due to comic inserted-owner's name inside cover-minor staining to page edge-otherwise dust jacket and cover fine binding strong contents clean-enjoy.
Add this copy of Look Back in Anger to cart. $49.04, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published by Diesterweg Moritz.
Add this copy of Look Back in Anger to cart. $55.63, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1963 by Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd.
Add this copy of Look Back in Anger to cart. $100.00, like new condition, Sold by Books Of Choice rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bloomington, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1957 by Criterion Books.
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Fine book in a Fine dust jacket. 96 pages. First American Edition. Osborne's first published play, produced on the London stage in 1956. The 1959 Tony Richardson film version starred Richard Burton. Fine book in a fine dustjacket.
Add this copy of Look Back in Anger (Faber Drama) to cart. $125.00, fair condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Faber & Faber.
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Acceptable. INSCRIBED! London: Faber & Faber, 1971. Reprint. Sm 8vo Paperback. 96pp. Inscribed by author on half title page and also inscribed on handwritten postcards laid-in. Fair book. Writing inside. Newspaper clippings laid-in. In polypropylene bag. (theater, drama, plays, scripts) Inquire if you need further information.