Déjàvu Back"’s Jimmy Porter. She disputes the comparison to Falstaff because J.P.'s antagonists are all "sham characters", easily outwitted by the hero, unlike Shakespeare's play in which Falstaff's bluster is exposed for what it is. However, she argues that J.P.'s social criticisms are largely consistent with the anarchic attitudes of the 1956 Jimmy. Déjàvu Déjàvu (1992) is a stage play by John Osborne. It was Osborne's final work for the theatre, the failure of which on the stage made him decide to give up play-writing. The play is a sequel to Osborne's first successful play, "Look Back in Anger" (1956); it
John F. Osborne John F. Osborne John F. Osborne (March 15, 1907 – May 3, 1981) was an American magazine editor and journalist. He was born in Corinth, Mississippi. Osborne wrote for the Memphis Commercial Appeal and the Associated Press before joining the National Recovery Administration, and then the Tennessee Valley Authority, as a U.S. government public relations officer during the Great Depression. He became an editor at Time–Life. In 1940, William Saroyan lists him among "contributing editors" at "Time" in the play, "Love's Old Sweet Song". Eventually, he became "Time"'s London editor and then Far East editor (based in Hong Kong) in