3533 ISSN 2286-4822 www.euacademic.org EUROPEAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH Vol. II, Issue 3/ June 2014 Impact Factor: 3.1 (UIF) DRJI Value: 5.9 (B+) The Portrait of the Artist as a Disintegrated Man: A Comparative Study of John Osborne's The Entertainer and David Hare's Teeth 'n' Smiles DR. HANA’ KHALIEF GHANI Department of Translation, College of Arts University of Al-Mustansiriya, Baghdad Iraq Abstract: Using James Joyce's The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as a framework, the present paper aims at discussing the position of the artist and his role in two post-war British plays; namely, Osborne's The Entertainer, and Hare's Teeth 'n' Smile. Unlike Joyce's novel which deals with the creative evolution of Stephan Dedalus into an artist, the plays under study deal with the gradual disintegration of the main characters/artists that stand for the disintegration of society and culture at large. The paper is divided into two main sections and a conclusion. The plays will be dealt with chronologically in sections one and two while the main findings will be stated in the Conclusion. Key words: disintegration, artist, Osborne, the Entertainer, Hare, Teeth 'n' Smiles, society, and culture. 1- The Entertainer Who No Longer Entertains: Undoubtedly, John Osborne (1929-1994) is one of the most celebrated playwrights in post-war British drama. With the novelists Kingsley Amis and John Wain, he helps to establish what is world-widely known as the 'Young Angry Men' tradition which is mainly concerned with criticizing "political and social