The Failure of a Marriage as a Theme of Look Back in Anger

The Birth of the Angry-Young-Man MovementIn 1956 the critics and the public in England were ready for something new in the field of drama. When, therefore, Osborne's Look Back in Anger was produced on May 8, 1956, they felt that a dramatist had appeared who could challenge such American playwrights as Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. With this play was born the angry-young-man movement.