John Osborne

"Gilleman writes not to bury or to praise Osborne, but to undersatnd the patterns of meaning that animate the plays. She succeeds admirably." Choice."

• Chapter 1 Osborne’s Phallic Art; Part 1 I; Chapter 2 Rise to the Top, 1956–1963; Chapter 3 Look Back in Anger (1956); Chapter 4 The Entertainer (1957); Chapter 5 Luther (1961); Part 2 II; Chapter 6 At the Top, 1964–1971; Chapter 7 Inadmissible Evidence (1964); Chapter 8 A Patriot for Me (1965); Part 3 III; Chapter 9 The Long Descent, 1972–1994; Chapter 10 A Sense of Detachment (1972); Chapter 11 Watch It Come Down (1976); Chapter 12 Déjàvu (1992);