John Osborne: Four Plays: A Sense of Detachment; The End of Me Old Cigar; Jill and Jack; A Place Calling Itself Rome
Includes the plays A Sense of Detachment, The End of Me Old Cigar, Jill and Jack and A Place Calling Itself Rome


Osborne here delivers his trademark eloquence, rage and devastating wit. A Sense of Detachment satirises our heartless, profiteering society, while defending timeless human values. The End of Me Old Cigar examines the decadent lives of a collection of leading media figures. The television play Jill and Jack is a comic gem that satirises the conventions of its own genre while also being a close study of sexual warfare.A Place Calling Itself Rome is a powerful reworking of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.

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John Osborne: Four Plays: A Sense of Detachment; The End of Me Old Cigar; Jill and Jack; A Place Calling Itself Rome
Includes the plays A Sense of Detachment, The End of Me Old Cigar, Jill and Jack and A Place Calling Itself Rome


Osborne here delivers his trademark eloquence, rage and devastating wit. A Sense of Detachment satirises our heartless, profiteering society, while defending timeless human values. The End of Me Old Cigar examines the decadent lives of a collection of leading media figures. The television play Jill and Jack is a comic gem that satirises the conventions of its own genre while also being a close study of sexual warfare.A Place Calling Itself Rome is a powerful reworking of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.

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John Osborne: Four Plays: A Sense of Detachment; The End of Me Old Cigar; Jill and Jack; A Place Calling Itself Rome

John Osborne: Four Plays: A Sense of Detachment; The End of Me Old Cigar; Jill and Jack; A Place Calling Itself Rome

John Osborne: Four Plays: A Sense of Detachment; The End of Me Old Cigar; Jill and Jack; A Place Calling Itself Rome

John Osborne: Four Plays: A Sense of Detachment; The End of Me Old Cigar; Jill and Jack; A Place Calling Itself Rome

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Includes the plays A Sense of Detachment, The End of Me Old Cigar, Jill and Jack and A Place Calling Itself Rome


Osborne here delivers his trademark eloquence, rage and devastating wit. A Sense of Detachment satirises our heartless, profiteering society, while defending timeless human values. The End of Me Old Cigar examines the decadent lives of a collection of leading media figures. The television play Jill and Jack is a comic gem that satirises the conventions of its own genre while also being a close study of sexual warfare.A Place Calling Itself Rome is a powerful reworking of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.


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ISBN-13: 9781840020748
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 04/01/2000
Series: Oberon Modern Playwrights
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

John Osborne was born in London in 1929. He worked as a jourbanalist for a number of trade magazines before becoming an Assistant Stage Manager and actor with several repertory companies. Look Back in Anger (1956) has come to stand as a key text for modern British Drama, and prompted other successes with The Entertainer and Epitaph for George Dillon. He was the first of many writers to be 'discovered' by the Royal Court Theatre, and Look Back in Anger was the first of the Royal Court's plays to be internationally recognised. Osborne adapted Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer for film. He also wrote an Oscar winning screenplay adaptation of Henry Fielding's novel Tom Jones.
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