
Play in t hr ee a c ts by John Osborne, performed in 1 956 and published in 1957. A published description of Osborne as an "angry young man" was extended to apply to an entire generation of disaffected young Br it ish writers who identified with the lower classes and viewed the upper classes and the established political institutions with disd ai n. Although the form of the play was not revolutionary, its content was unexpected. On stage for the first time were the 20- to 30-year- old s of Great Britain who had not participated in World War II and who found its aftermath lacking in promise. The hero, Jimmy Porter, has reached an uncomfortably marginal position on the border of the middle class, from which he can see the traditional possessors of privilege holding the better jobs and threatening his upward climb.
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