John Arden

Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

Political allegory of returning soldiers enacting violence through ritualized military funeral

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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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