26 APRIL 1957, Page 15

THE ANGRY YOUNG MAN

SIR,—What a pity Mr. John Osborne insists on looking down in anger on (thank you, Mr. Collin!) your observer's observation of an English play- wright. Has he no forward-looking feeling for posterity? Hang it all, we know little enough about the lifemanship of Shakespeare!—Yours faithfully,