John Arden

Armstrong's Last Goodnight

Ballad of a Scottish gangster's rise and fall in early modern borderlands

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John Arden

British playwright whose work combined Brechtian political theater with English folk and ballad traditions. Serjeant Musgrave's Dance is among the finest British anti-war plays of the century. His later collaboration with Margaretta D'Arcy produced increasingly radical political work.

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