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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".
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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".
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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 · At bottom John Arden was an intuitive political poet, who realised the cultural relationship between the oppressed and their oppressors and its effect on character. Had he been American he...
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...
Between Sedbergh and Cambridge, the future author of Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance and writer for Peace News served in the military, mostly in Edinburgh, where he attained the rank of...
British playwright and novelist. Arden studied at Cambridge and Edinburgh and trained as an architect, but from the late 1950s devoted himself to the theatre. His early plays, which included The Waters of Babylon (1957), Live Like Pigs (1958), and The Happy Haven (1960), were grotesque comedies of modern life.
Jan 3, 2004 · John Arden was at the forefront of innovative drama in the '60s yet has made little money from his work.
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