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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.

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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

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