Look Back in Anger of the Modern Time

Piyush Raj
My Writing Corner
Published in
8 min readSep 21, 2016

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It is in the year 1956 when John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger was first staged at the Royal Court, but it was only in the final semester in the college [I graduated in 2015] that I got to know about it through my HSS course in Masculinity Studies. And therefore, for anyone reading this article any further, a thorough reading of the drama is essential.

Look Back in Anger is set in the period of post-colonial British Empire, the Sun has now started setting down in the Empire. The highly reputed, overly coveted jobs over shore which were once present are not there…

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