Who is John Osborne?

John Osborne

John James Osborne (12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and critic of the Establishment. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre.

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    “Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.”
    —John Osborne (1929–1994)

    “How soon I may ride the whole world about;
    And at the third question thou must not shrink,
    But tell me here truly what I do think.””
    —Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 30–32)