God's Blighted Englishmen

This text is an in-depth analysis of three of John Osborne's most celebrated plays.The overriding theoretical approach is one of General Historicism and of Post-Colonialsm in particular, although the Feminist,the Psychological and the Philosophical are also employed as required.The work also contains detailed comments on famous past productions of these plays as well as explanation of the staging and casting choices made by the author in the production of LOOK BACK IN ANGER which she directed and produced.The text also draws comparisons between these plays and the work of other playwrights such as Strindberg, Beckett and Pinter and further to that it suggests how the themes of the study could be taken forward into a more extended analysis.The work will be of use to teachers preparing students for A-Level as well as to undergraduate and graduate students who are writing their own analyses of various aspects of Modern Drama. It should also be of interest to the general reader.