John Osborne : plays three
Osborne, John, 1929-1998
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John Osborne is one of the nine playwrights featured in Faber's Contemporary Classics series. This collection of three of Osborne's classic plays comes with an introduction by his widow, Helen. This third collection of John Osborne's dramatic work includes three classic plays for the stage which confirm his reputation as one of the greatest British playwrights of the twentieth century. 'It is a landmark play in its open treatment of homosexuality and in the breadth of its historical canvas... few post-war plays have dealt so brilliantly with the way the individual, in rejecting the ethos of his society, also uncannily reflects it.' 'The language is urgent and sinewy, packed with images that derive from bone, blood and marrow; the prose, especially in Luther's sermons, throbs with a rhetorical zeal that has not been heard in English historical drama since the seventeenth century.' Kenneth Tynan.
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John Osborne : plays three / introduced by the author.
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London : Faber, 1998.
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ix, 264p. ; 20 cm.
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Contents:
Contents: Luther. Originally published: 1961 - A patriot for me. Originally published: 1966 - Inadmissible evidence. Originally published: 1965
ISBN:
9780571178476 (pbk)
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English
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BRN:
1317850