First of all, the first major breakthrough in English literature in the 20th century came from drama creation. Starting from the Irish-led European realistic new drama, with the Irish national liberation movement, it opened the door to the Irish Renaissance, broke the new situation of English literature, and completely broke the long-term malaise of English drama. At the same time, the traditional modes of European classical comedy are skillfully combined, and the drama scripts formed by the combination of the two have brought high artistic appreciation and enjoyment to the British people, such as Bernard Shaw's The Career of Mrs. Warren and Singer's Playboy in the Western World. These plays not only successfully shaped the Irish nationalist complex and aroused people's enthusiasm, but also occupied a very important position in early British drama literature. The climax of the second English drama was at the end of 1950' s, and the spirit was sublimated on the stage, with a fresh and energetic script. His masterpieces include Osborne's Angry Review and Beckett's Waiting for Godot. They used limited dialogues and scenes to express the social life and emotions at that time, and the collocation of British actors portrayed the potential connotation of English drama more creatively.

Secondly, as far as novels are concerned, war literature originated from world wars, and the trauma literature caused by the two world wars emerged one after another. Although a group of modernist writers who were famous for their delicate motives appeared before the war, the new realism schools that emerged after the war, such as Ulysses written by Joyce, described the life of modern urbanites from a real and in-depth perspective, boldly and innovatively exposed the truth and vividly showed the vulgarity and vulgarity of urbanites. These postwar novel models are not only sincere and profound, but also strong in language, which has become an important turning point and progress in the history of British novel development. The works of the older generation writers such as Wells, Foster and John Galsworthy reveal people's emotional life in a realistic way and express the very realistic color in the 1920s.

Young writers abound in the postwar British literary world. Their focus is not to show people's psychological darkness and fearlessness, but to expose the ugliness of human nature, their longing for a better life, and even the intrigue among people from all walks of life in Britain. For example, william golding's Lord of the Flies illustrates these meanings well. At the same time, there are also a group of "angry youths" at this stage. Most of them grew up in the welfare society after the Labor Party came to power and received university education. However, Britain in this period was still clearly defined, and the resulting writers also had new meanings, such as Celito's Loneliness of Long-distance Runners, which used humorous metaphors to express young people from poor families' resistance and dissatisfaction with the ruling class. In addition, many talented women writers emerged in Britain during this period. They described marriage, love, career and other issues with young women as the topic. Exquisite and rich in content and touching in plot, it also shows to a great extent that British contemporary novel creation is different from the past.