DISTINGUISHED PLAYWRIGHT JOHN OSBORNE’S ROLE IN THE “ANGRY YOUNG MEN” MOVEMENT BY HIS PLAY “LOOK BACK IN ANGER”
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Key words: British Theatre, Angry Young Men movement, playwrights, drama, play, John Osborne, protagonist Jimmy Porter, postwar generation, modernism, culture, social insecurity.Abstract
Abstract. Radically new age of Britain (1950s) was labelled as the Angry Young Men Movement. John Osborne changed the face of British Theatre and demonstrated the angry young man prototype through his famous play "Look Back in Anger". The hero of the play, Jimmy mirrors the tensions of the contemporary lower and middle class young-men. The play had also a profound effect on British culture.
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