Before anger : The devil inside him ; Personnal enemy / John Osborne ; edited with an introduction by Jamie Andrews ; foreword by Peter Nichols.

191 pages ; 21 cm.

The devil inside him / by John Osborne with Stella Linden ; 8 characters (5m, 3w). -- Personnal enemy / by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton ; 9 characters (6m, 3w).

The first performance of Look Back in Anger in 1956 ushered in a new period of British theatre, and its success established the previously unknown John Osborne as a new playwright of the first rank. Contrary to popular perception, Look Back was not Osborne's first play to be performed, and two of his early plays had already enjoyed professional productions. Copies of the scripts, thought to have been lost, were rediscovered in the British Library in 2008, and are presented for the first time here. The Devil Inside Him (1950) was the 21 year-old Osborne's earliest attempt at a ful.

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