Serjeant Musgrave's Dance by John Arden

Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

John Arden

150 pages first pub 1959 (view editions)

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Written in 1959 and premiered at the Royal Court Theatre on October 22 of that year. In Arden's introductory note to the text, he describes it as "a realistic, but not a naturalistic" play. The work follows three privates in the British Army and t...

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