1 option
Plays: 1: the Waters Of Babylon: When Is a Door Not a Door?: Live Like Pigs: Serjeant Musgrave's Dance: the Happy Haven With a Preface and Introductory Notes By the Author.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arden, John
- Series:
- World Classics.
- World Classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- London : Methuen, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The modern English theatre has had its poets and it has had its dramatists, but in John Arden it has acquired its first dramatic poet since-well, let's be rash-the days of Shakespeare.-Sunday Times. The Waters of Babylon: ""This wildly, acidly funny and oddly tragic story of London low-life ... reveals Arden's tough linguistic freedom and the free-wheeling ease with which he switches from prose to verse and back again.""-Sunday Times. Live Like Pigs: ""Thrilling theatre ... a rumbustious delight, outrageously funny, powerfully dramatic and, when you least expect it, genuinely moving ... a mode
- Contents:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Chronology; Preface; THE WATERS OF BABYLON; WHEN IS A DOOR NOT A DOOR?; LIVE LIKE PIGS; SERJEANT MUSGRAVE'S DANCE; THE HAPPY HAVEN (written with Margaretta D'Arcy)
- Notes:
- Authorial Preface included with The Waters of Babylon. The following plays have been taken from this source: Live Like Pigs Serjeant Musgrave's Dance The Happy Haven The Waters of Babylon When is a Door not a Door?.
- ISBN:
- 9781408161432
- 1408161435
- 9781408115428
- 1408115425
- OCLC:
- 727647651
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.