”If you don't care you’ll die” : The Concept of “Liveness” in Arnold Wesker’s Chicken Soup with Barley and John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger by Sarah-jane Coyle

“…By contrast, this article will consider “liveness” as a doctrine and pervasive ideology in two landmark plays of 1950s Britain, Arnold Wesker’s Chicken Soup with Barley, and John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger. Both plays represent dramas of emotion and were written by members of the “angry young men” movement, a term denoting a group of working-class dramatists, who used their work to express frustration with Britain’s outdated class system and post-war society. …”
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