A Study Guide for John Arden's "Serjeant Musgrave's Dance"
A Study Guide for John Arden's

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 1410357635

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A Study Guide for John Arden's "Serjeant Musgrave's Dance," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

Author: John Arden

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-12-30

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1408177242

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Set between 1860 and 1880, four deserters bring the body of a dead soldier back to his home town, a mining community in the grip of a coal strike and cut off by snow. Their leader, Serjeant Musgrave, plans to hold the town at gunpoint and confront its people with the realities of warfare. Arden's play questions the military principle of "Obey or suffer" and the cruelty and futility of war. Serjeant Musgrave's Dance was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1959.This volume contains expert notes on the author's life and work, historical and political background to the play and a glossary of difficult words and phrases.

A Study Guide for John Arden's "Serjeant Musgrave's Dance"
A Study Guide for John Arden's

Author: Cengage Learning Gale

Publisher:

Published: 2017-07-25

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781375387682

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A Study Guide for John Arden's "Serjeant Musgrave's Dance," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

The Theatre Guide
The Theatre Guide

Author: Trevor R. Griffiths

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-07-04

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1408103133

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With over 500 entries on the most important plays and playwrights performed today, The Theatre Guide provides an authoritative A - Z of the contemporary theatre scene. From Aristophanes to Mark Ravenhill, The Alchemist to The Talking Cure, the Guide is both biographically detailed and critically current, while an extensive cross-referencing system allows for wider perspectives and new discoveries. Stimulating, observant and informative, The Theatre Guide is an essential companion and reference tool for anyone with an active interest in drama.

A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English
A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English

Author: Harry Blamires

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-06-23

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 1000287645

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First published in 1983, A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English is a detailed and comprehensive guide containing over 500 entries on individual writers from countries including Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the UK. The book contains substantial articles relating to major novelists, poets, and dramatists of the age, as well as a wealth of information on the work of lesser-known writers and the part they have played in cultural history. It focuses in detail on the character and quality of the literature itself, highlighting what is distinctive in the work of the writers being discussed and providing key biographical and contextual details. A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English is ideal for those with an interest in the twentieth century literary scene and the history of literature more broadly.

British Playwrights, 1956-1995
British Playwrights, 1956-1995

Author: William W. Demastes

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1996-10-23

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 1567507433

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The year 1956 marked a point when British drama and theater fell into the hands of a group of young playwrights who revolutionized the stage. During that time, playwrights such as Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter made the British theater as rich, varied, and vital as any national theater in history. This reference chronicles the history of British theater from 1956 to 1995 by providing detailed information about the playwrights of that period. Included are entries for some three dozen British playwrights active between 1956 and 1995. Entries are arranged alphabetically to facilitate use. Each entry supplies biographical information, the production history for particular plays, a survey of the playwright's critical reception, an assessment of the dramatist's work, and primary and secondary bibliographies. A selected, general bibliography at the end of the volume directs the reader to important sources of additional information about this period in theater history.