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John James Osborne fue un dramaturgo, guionista, actor y crítico del establishment británico.[1]​ El abrumador éxito de su obra de 1956 Look Back in Anger transformó el teatro inglés. En una vida productiva de más de 40 años, exploró muchos temas y géneros, escribiendo para el teatro, el cine y la televisión. Su vida privada fue extravagante e iconoclasta. Fue famoso por la ornamentada violencia de su lenguaje, que no solo empleaba a favor de las causas políticas que apoyaba sino también contra su propia familia, incluyendo sus esposas e hijos, aunque ellos a menudo dieron lo que recibieron.

Llegó a la escena británica en una época en que la actuación disfrutaba de una edad de oro, a pesar de que la mayor parte de las grandes obras provenían de Estados Unidos y Francia. Las obras británicas permanecieron ciegas a las complejidades del período de posguerra. Osborne fue uno de los primeros escritores en dirigirse al propósito del Reino Unido en la época postimperial. Fue el primero en cuestionarse el sentido de la monarquía sobre un destacado escenario público. En su momento cumbre , consiguió que el desprecio fuese admisible e incluso una emoción estereotipada en el escenario, argumentó en pro de la sabiduría limpiadora del mal comportamiento y del mal gusto, y combinó una incansable veracidad con un ingenio devastador. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. diciembre 1929 – 24. diciembre 1994   •   Otros nombres John James Osborne
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“Why don't we have a little game? Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive.”

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John Osborne Look Back in Anger

Fuente: Look Back in Anger

“You're hurt because everything is changed. Jimmy is hurt because everything is the same. And neither of you can face it. Something's gone wrong somewhere, hasn't it?”

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John Osborne Look Back in Anger

Fuente: Look Back in Anger

“Archie Rice: Let me know where you're working tomorrow night and I'll come and see you.”

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John Osborne The Entertainer

Number 13; this, the music-hall entertainer Archie Rice's acid farewell to his audience, also appears on Osborne's gravestone https://web.archive.org/web/20071020084223/http://www.shropshiregallery.co.uk/towns/clun/IMG_0277.html.
The Entertainer (1957)

“Archie Rice: Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building.”

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John Osborne The Entertainer

Number 7; said to have been an old joke in the music-halls at the time the play was written.
The Entertainer (1957)

“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.”

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Quoted in Time magazine, October 31, 1977. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,945814,00.html
Also attributed to Christopher Hampton by the Sunday Times Magazine (16 October 1977)

“Jimmy Porter: They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past.”

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John Osborne Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger, Act II, sc. I (1956)

“John Osborne spoke out in a vein of ebullient, free-wheeling rancour that betokened the arrival of something new in the theatre – a sophisticated, articulate lower-class. Most of the critics were offended by Jimmy Porter, but not on account of his anger; a working-class hero is expected to be angry. What nettled them was something quite different: his self-confidence. This was no envious inferior whose insecurity they could pity.”

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Kenneth Tynan, Tynan Right and Left (1967) p. 13
Criticism

“Archie Rice: I'm dead behind these eyes. I'm dead, just like the whole inert, shoddy lot out there. It doesn't matter because I don't feel a thing, and neither do they.”

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John Osborne The Entertainer

Number 8
The Entertainer (1957)

“George Dillon: [I]t's easy to answer the ultimate questions – it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.”

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Epitaph for George Dillon, Act II (1957)
Co-written with Anthony Creighton.

“This is a letter of hate. It is for you my countrymen, I mean those men of my country who have defiled it. The men with manic fingers leading the sightless, feeble, betrayed body of my country to its death.”

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"A Letter To My Fellow Countrymen", Tribune (18 August 1961)