6.Christopher Fry After Eliot,Christopher Fry gained considerable successes in poetic drama. His exuberant though poetically commonplace verse drama. The Lady's Not For Burning(1948), attracted delighted audience
❖ 6. Christopher Fry ❖ After Eliot, Christopher Fry gained considerable successes in poetic drama. ❖ His exuberant though poetically commonplace verse drama. The Lady's Not For Burning (1948), attracted delighted audience
7.The working-class drama and Angry Young Man The English dramatic revolution,which came in the 1950s under various European and American influences,developed in two directions:the working-class drama and the Theater of Absurd
❖ 7. The working-class drama and Angry Young Man ❖ The English dramatic revolution, which came in the 1950s under various European and American influences, developed in two directions: the working-class drama and the Theater of Absurd
The working-class drama was started by a group of young writers from the lower-middle class,or working class,who presented a new type of plays which expressed a mood of restlessness,anger and frustration,a spirit of rebelliousness,and a strong emotional protest against the existing social institutions
❖ The working-class drama was started by a group of young writers from the lower-middle class, or working class, who presented a new type of plays which expressed a mood of restlessness, anger and frustration, a spirit of rebelliousness, and a strong emotional protest against the existing social institutions
John Osborne's play,Look Back in Anger (1956),in a fresh,unadorned working-class language,angrily,violently and unrelentingly condemned the contemporary social evils
❖ John Osborne's play, Look Back in Anger (1956), in a fresh, unadorned working-class language, angrily, violently and unrelentingly condemned the contemporary social evils
With an entirely new sense of reality, Osborne brought vitality to the English theater and became known as the first "Angry Young Man
❖ With an entirely new sense of reality, Osborne brought vitality to the English theater and became known as the first "Angry Young Man