SOURCE: "John Osborne: Look Forward in Fear," in Essays on Contemporary British Drama, edited by Hedwig Bock and Albert Wertheim, Max Hueber Verlag, 1981, pp. 5-30.
In the following essay, Gale identifies fear of the future as the emotional center of John Osborne's West of Suez, Watch It Come Down, and other plays of the 1970s.
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