English Annotated Reader: Look Back in Anger by John Osborne

English Annotated Reader: Look Back in Anger by John Osborne. Introduction, notes and activities by Margaret Rose.

Osborne's modern-day classic, first staged at London's Royal Court Theatre in 1956, voices the frustrations of an entire generation – the so-called "Angry Young Men". Aggression, sympathy and sadness are magnificently portrayed in the stormy triangular relationship between Jimmy Porter, his wife Alison and their best friend Cliff.