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Osborne, John,(John James Osborne) 1929-94, English dramatist. He began his theatrical career as an actor and playwright in provincial English repertory theaters. Osborne's plays usually focus on an i

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Osborne, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia - English
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1929–94, English dramatist. He began his theatrical career as an actor and playwright in provincial English repertory theaters. Osborne’s plays usually focus on an individual character and the sheer force of his language rather than on action. His first commercial success was Look Back in Anger (1956), concerning a restless and vociferous young man of the working class who is at war with himself and society; it became the seminal work for the so-called angry young men.

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Osborne, John - Britannica.com - English
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The son of a commercial artist and a barmaid, Osborne used insurance money from his father's death in 1941 for a boarding- school education at Belmont College, Devon. He hated it and left after striking the headmaster. He went home to his mother in London and briefly tried trade journalism until a job tutoring a touring company of juvenile actors introduced him to the theatre. He was soon acting himself, later becoming an actor-manager for various repertory companies in provincial towns and also trying his hand at playwriting. His first play, The Devil Inside Him, was written in 1950 with his friend and mentor Stella Linden, an actress and one of Osborne's first passions.

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John Osborne (1929-1994) - English
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Biography of English dramatist John Osborne, plus links to all of his works currently in print.

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xrefer - Osborne, John James (1929-1994) - English
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British playwright and actor, who first came to prominence as an 'angry young man' of the 1950s.

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