Renaissance Theatre Company both the theatre and television productions of "Look Back in Anger" by John Osborne, presented first in Belfast then in London at the Lyric Theatre, starring Branagh as Jimmy Porter and Emma Thompson as Alison. Renaissance moved into different mediums such as Branagh's Academy Award-winning film version of Henry V, but also by producing three Shakespeare plays on radio: "Hamlet", "Romeo and Juliet", and finally, "King Lear" starring Sir John Gielgud. The company's last two major stage productions were "Uncle Vanya" (with Richard Briers and Peter Eyre) and "Coriolanus" produced in conjunction with the Chichester Festival Theatre and starring Kenneth
John Osborne (barrister) Parliament. After the Glorious Revolution he was restored to office as Serjeant-at-law. His notable independence of mind, and his hatred of all former Jacobites, Protestant as well as Roman Catholic, even those who had pledged their loyalty to the new King William III, soon made him almost as obnoxious to the new regime as he had been to the old. He was dismissed from office shortly before his death in 1692. His father Francis Osborne was the fifth son of Sir John Osborne of Chicksands Priory, Shefford, Bedfordshire and his wife Dorothy Barlee of Effingham Hall, Essex; Peter Osborne, Royal