A Patriot For Me
A Patriot For Me
by John Osborne
Publisher Faber & Faber
Genre: General Fiction and Drama
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A Patriot for Me shows how a young, able and ambitious officer of the Imperial and Royal Army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was, through his homesexuality, blackmailed into becoming a spy for Tsarist Russia.
When John Osborne wrote A Patriot for Me it was not licensed for public performance by the Lord Chamberlain. In July 1965 the Royal Court Theatre, London, had to be converted into a club for the first production to take place. This volume contains a list of the cuts and alterations requested by the Lord Chamberlain - to which Osborne refused to agree.
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About the Author
John Osborne
John Osborne was born in London in 1929. Before becoming a playwright he worked as a journalist, assistant stage manager and repertory theatre actor. Seeing an advertisement for new plays inThe Stagein 1956, Osborne submittedLook Back in Anger. Not only was the play produced, but it was to become considered as the turning point in post-war British theatre. Osborne's protagonist, Jimmy Porter, captured the rebelliousness of an entire post-war generation of 'angry young men'. His other plays includeThe Entertainer(1957),Luther(1961),Inadmissible Evidence(1964), andA Patriot for Me(1966). He also wrote two volumes of autobiography,A Better Class of Person(1981) andAlmost a Gentleman(1991) published together asLooking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise. His last play,Deja Vu(1991), returns to the characters ofLook Back in Anger, over thirty years later. BothLook Back in AngerandThe Entertainerwere adapted for film, and in 1963 Osborne won an Academy Award for his screenplay forTom Jones. John Osborne died on 24 December 1994.
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