Osborne's Development as a Playwright

The Angry Young ManWith the publication of Look Back in Anger in 1956, John Osborne came to be known as the "angry young man". This label was both his good fortune and misfortune. The play marked the beginning of the new drama and it became a talking point in a way that had no precedent. But the author's misfortune consisted in the fact that he could not afterwards grow out of the label or could