John Osborne: A Casebook

ISBN-13: 9780824074425 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 266 str.

P. Denison; Patricia D. Denison

Opis

A dozen new essays on playwright Osborne (1929-94) whose 1956 Look Back in Anger launched the renewal of postwar British theatre and has remained an enduring classic since. Among them are a memory, a eulogy, and a bibliography as well as considerations of such plays as The Entertainer (1957), Luther

Recenzje

"Excellent bibliography; recommended for upper-division and graduate collections." -- Choice

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The House that Jimmy Built, Ronald Bryden; Chapter 2 Beyond Anger, David Galef; Chapter 3 The Personal, the Political, and the Postmodern in Osborne?€?s Look Back in Anger and Déjávu, Austin E. Quigley; Chapter 4 Osborne on the Fault Line, William W. Demastes; Chapter 5 The Logic of Anger and Despair, Luc M. Gilleman; Chapter 6 The Entertainer as a Text for Performance, Robert Gordon; Chapter 7 Luther, David Graver; Chapter 8 From out of the Shadow of Nicol Williamson, Mark Hawkins-Dady; Chapter 9 Seduced by Meritocracy, Robert F. Gross; Chapter 10 ?€?Honey, I Blew up the Ego?€?, Sheila Stowell; Chapter 11 John Osborne, Summer 1993, Kimball King; Chapter 12 The Angry Young Man Who Stayed that Way, John Mortimer; Chapter 13 A Memory of John Osborne, Arnold Wesker; Chapter 14 Eulogy for John Osborne, David Hare;

O autorze

Kimball King, Patricia D. Denison