Angry young men and john osborne

“Look back in anger” premiered in 1956, the play was written by john Osborne. “Look back in anger” grew to become a success on stages of London and created the term “angry young men”, this term was created to describe John Osborne and others like him who employ realism onto the stage. The “angry young men” where a group of mostly working class and middle class British novelists and playwrights who built a reputation for themselves in the 1950s by writing to highlight flaws with the English society and class system in there plays and novels. This group of writers where unhappy with how the higher classes believed they were a better type of people due to an inheritance of wealth and power and believed that their class made no difference an that social class was not a measurement of a human being. These writers where highly talented and educated, the leading members of this group included John Osborne and Kingsley Amis, the phrase “angry young men” was originally formed by the Royal court theatres press officer to promote John Osborne’s play “look back in anger” it was thought to be derived from Leslie Pauls Autobiography called “whose angry young men”, Leslie was the founder of the woodcraft folk which was a UK based educational movement for children and young people that was founded in 1925 and it has been a registered charity since 1965.