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John Arden (26 October 1930 – 28 March 2012) was an English playwright who at his death was lauded as "one of the most significant British playwrights of the late 1950s and early 60s".
John Arden was one of the most important of the British playwrights to emerge in the mid-20th century. His plays mix poetry and songs with colloquial speech in a boldly theatrical manner and involve strong conflicts purposely left unresolved.
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Apr 1, 2012 · John Arden, novelist and playwright: born Barnsley 26 October 1930; married 1957 Margaretta D'Arcy (four sons, and one son deceased); died 28 March 2012.
Apr 3, 2012 · John Arden, a major British playwright of the 1950s and 1960s, whose politically engaged, theatrically inventive and conscience-provoking works were often compared to Brecht’s but have been only...
He has been widely lauded as one of the most significant British playwrights of the 1950s and 60s. He wrote the highly regarded 1959 play, Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance, and his 1978 radio play Pearl was considered in a Guardian survey to be one of the best plays in that medium.
Jan 3, 2004 · T he climactic scene in John Arden's 1959 play Serjeant Musgrave's Dance takes place in the market square of a 19th-century northern mining town. A group of British soldiers, sickened by...
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