An Analysis of Jimmy Porter's Anger in "Look Back in Anger"

The Immediacy of the Subject-MatterLook Back in Anger had a tremendous impact on audiences when it was first produced. Technically it marked no innovation: it was a "fourth wall" realistic play, not different in a technical sense from such a play as Galsworthy's The Silver Box which had been shown fifty years before in the same theatre. One explanation for the great impact of Osborne's play was