John Osborne

John Osborne Plays Three - Contemporary Classics

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

A Patriot for Me
'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.' Guardian

Luther
'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

Inadmissible Evidence
'This is a work of stunning and intemperate power, a great bellow of rage and pain... there is a self-lacerating honesty about his writing that few other playwrights have come close to matching.' Daily Telegraph

Book information

ISBN: 9780571178476
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Pub date:
DEWEY: 822.914
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 264
Weight: 298g
Height: 196mm
Width: 128mm
Spine width: 16mm