Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance

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Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance

play by Arden

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In John Arden
…followed by his best-known work, Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance (1959), set in a colliery town in 1860–80. Both plays caused controversy.
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English literature

In English literature: Drama
Arden wrote historical plays (Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance [1959], Armstrong’s Last Goodnight [1964]) to advance radical social and political views and in doing so provided a model that several later left-wing dramatists followed.
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