John Osborne : 'anger is not about ... ' / Peter Whitebrook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitebrook, Peter, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Osborne, John, 1929-1994.

Authors, English.

Osborne, John.

Dramatists, English--20th century--Biography.

Dramatists, English.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Oberon Books Ltd., 2015.

Summary:

'"What's he angry about?" they used to ask. Anger is not about... It comes into the world in grief not grievance. It is mourning the unknown, the loss of what went before without you, it's the love that another time but not this might have sprung on you, and greatest loss of all, the deprivation of what, even as a child, seemed to be irrevocably your own, your country, your birthplace, that, at least, is as tangible as death.' Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Beginnings 1

1 A New Start 3

2 A Sense of Loss 12

3 Charity's Child 17

4 The Journalist 30

5 The Actor 40

6 Bridgwater Bound 51

7 Repertory 61

8 Doomed in Derby 72

9 Creation 82

10 Royal Court 93

11 The Year of the Angry Young Man 108

Part 2 Extravagance 125

12 The King at the Court 127

13 Transatlantic 144

14 Black and White 154

15 The Battle of Cambridge Circus 162

16 Betrayal 172

17 Protest 190

18 Other Englands 200

19 A Sixties Millionaire 210

20 Of Mother, Money, Marriage and Manners 224

21 The Baron Who Went Too Far 233

Part 3 Resilience 247

22 Love and Loss 249

23 The Cavalry and the Law 262

24 Fearing the Future 268

25 Detachment 277

26 Despair 289

27 Desolarion 301

28 Retrenching 306

29 Defiance 323

30 Redemption 340

31 Afterlife 352.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-367) and index.

ISBN:

178319877X

9781783198771

OCLC:

929064260