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Look Back in Anger by John Osborne

War of the Worlds by Orson Welles

Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer

Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

Gaslight/Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton

Rope by Patrick Hamilton

August 4, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Look Back in Anger – 3/5 I took a class in grad school called “Post-War British Masculinity” and lest you think it was just a code-word for “Angry Young Men” we also read some tremendously good books like the Collected Philip Larkin, Brideshead Revisited, and The Jewel in the Crown. This was also one of the books we read, though we mainly talked about the movie, since it starred a very histrionic Richard Burton in full “RAGE, RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT” kind […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Anthony Shaffer, Christopher Marlowe, John Osborne, Orson Welles, Patrick Hamilton

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:441 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Anthony Shaffer, Christopher Marlowe, John Osborne, Orson Welles, Patrick Hamilton ·
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