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Definition of Setting
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or it can be an imagined... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the... read full definition
Act 1
Explanation and Analysis:
Look Back in Anger is set in England in the postwar period. Like many other works associated with kitchen sink realism, the principal action takes place in a single cramped apartment, a setting established in the opening stage directions of the play:
The Porters’ one-room flat in a large Midland town. Early evening. April. The scene is a fairly large attic room, at the top of a large Victorian house [...] Most of the furniture is simple, and rather old. Up R is a double bed, running the length of most of the back wall, the rest of which is taken up with a shelf of books. Down R below the bed is a heavy chest of drawers, covered with books, neckties and odds and ends, including a large, tattered toy teddy bear and soft, woolly squirrel.
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