Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

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Serjeant Musgrave s Dance: An Unhistorical Parable; by John Arden; Grove Press, Inc., New York, 1962. First printing. An Evergreen Original. John Arden (1930 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". Arden was initially associated with the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre in London. His 1959 play, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, (this book) in which four army deserters arrive in a northern mining town to exact retribution for an act of colonial violence, is considered to be his best. His work was influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theatre as in Left-Handed Liberty (1965, on the anniversary of Magna Carta. Other plays include Live Like Pigs, The Workhouse Donkey, and Armstrong's Last Goodnight, the last of which was performed at the 1963 Chichester Festival by the National Theatre after it was rejected by the Royal Court. He also wrote several novels, including Silence Among the Weapons, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1982, and Books of Bale, about the Protestant apologist John Bale. This paperback book, 104 pages plus seven pages of black & white photographs from the English production of the play, is in near-fine condition. A neat, printed in ink, name of a previous owner is on the first free endpaper. A very collectible copy of a very scarce book. N° de ref. del artículo 21109c

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