Arden, John

Overview

Works:	434 works in 1,459 publications in 4 languages and 19,214 library holdings
Genres:	Drama Criticism, interpretation, etc History Biography Reviews Juvenile works Fiction Historical drama Melodrama Christmas plays
Roles:	Author, Performer, Other, Adapter, Dedicatee, Author of introduction, Editor, Creator
Classifications:	PR6051.R3, 822.914

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about John Arden

Modern British playwriting. voices, documents, new interpretations by Steve Nicholson( )
John Arden by Simon Trussler( Book )
John Arden by Glenda Leeming( Book )
Arden on file by Malcolm Page( Book )
Arden; a study of his plays by Albert Hunt( Book )

John Arden by Malcolm Page( Book )
John Arden by Frances Gray( Book )
Toward a theater of the oppressed : the dramaturgy of John Arden by Javed Malick( Book )
John Arden by Ronald Hayman( Book )
Anger and detachment : a study of Arden, Osborne, and Pinter by Michael Anderson( Book )
The making of theatrical reputations : studies from the modern London theatre by Yael Zarhy-Levo( Book )
John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy : a casebook( Book )
Awkward corners : essays, papers, fragments by John Arden( Book )
Les voies de la création théâtrale by Jean Jacquot( Book )
Melodrama heute : die Adaption melodramatischer Elemente und Strukturen im Werk von John Arden und Arden/D'Arcy by Michael Göring( Book )
Brecht und Arden : engagiertes Aufnehmen Brechtscher Theorien und Methoden by Lamice El-Amari( Book )
Frauengestalten und Frauenthemen bei John Arden und Margaretta D'Arcy : mit Vergleichskapiteln zu Ann Jellicoe, Arnold Wesker, John McGrath und Caryl Churchill by Heike Jüngst( Book )
Gallows : and other tales of suspicion and obsession by John Arden( Book )
Modern British playwriting : voices, documents, new interpretations( )
Gegenklänge. Aquarelle u. Zeichn by Wassily Kandinsky( Book )

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Most widely held works by John Arden

Serjeant Musgrave's dance, an unhistorical parable by John Arden( Book )

154 editions published between 1900 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,458 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Set between 1860 and 1880, four deserters bring the body of a dead soldier back to his home town, a mining community in the grip of a coal strike and cut off by snow. Their leader, Serjeant Musgrave, plans to hold the town at gunpoint and confront its people with the realities of warfare. Arden's play questions the military principle of 'Obey or suffer' and the cruelty and futility of war. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1959

Three plays: The waters of Babylon, Live like pigs [and] The happy haven by John Arden( Book )

35 editions published between 1964 and 1984 in English and held by 813 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Left-handed liberty : a play about Magna carta by John Arden( Book )

32 editions published between 1965 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 776 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In dramatising the creation of the Magna Carta, John Arden inhabits the minds of 13th century England with great skill and ingenuity, presenting the establishment of the founding of the charter - on which modern Britain's constitutional law stands - as a time of great confusion and insecurity. 'Left-Handed Liberty' was commissioned by the Corporation of the City of London to commemorate the 750th Anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta, with the first public performance given in June 1965

The business of good government : a Christmas play by John Arden( Book )

43 editions published between 1963 and 1983 in English and held by 689 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Armstrong's last goodnight; an exercise in diplomacy by John Arden( Book )

48 editions published between 1965 and 1977 in English and Undetermined and held by 659 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Declaring how John Armstrong and his eightscore men fought a bloody battle with the Scotch king at Edenborough

Plays by John Arden( Book )

26 editions published between 1977 and 2002 in English and Undetermined and held by 562 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

To present the pretence : essays on the theatre and its public ... by John Arden( Book )

25 editions published between 1977 and 1979 in English and French and held by 487 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The workhouse donkey, a vulgar melo-drama by John Arden( Book )

47 editions published between 1964 and 1978 in English and held by 433 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A rumbustious tale of small town political corruption in the industrial town of Barnsley, Yorkshire where Arden was born in 1930

The royal pardon, or, The soldier who became an actor by John Arden( Book )

29 editions published between 1967 and 2013 in English and held by 430 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

After years of war, peace is to be reached between England and France, sealed by the marriage of the English prince and the French princesse. A company of actors is to be sent from England to Paris, to perform at a theatrical gala in celebration of the union. Croke's band of performers is carrying with them an ex-soldier Luke, on the run from the law. Circumstances twist, turn and contrive to place the soldier on the stage, with his new found beloved, where he must ad lib a play of great ingenuity to appease royalty, and the law's claim upon him. 'The Royal Pardon' was first performed at the Bedford Arts Centre, Devon, in 1966

The island of the mighty : a play on a traditional British theme in three parts by John Arden( Book )

22 editions published between 1974 and 2011 in English and French and held by 426 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Soldier, soldier : and other plays by John Arden( Book )

14 editions published in 1967 in English and French and held by 387 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Plays by John Arden( Book )

27 editions published between 1977 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 362 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The hero rises up: a romantic melodrama by John Arden( Book )

13 editions published in 1969 in English and held by 357 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The non-stop Connolly show : a dramatic cycle of continuous struggle in six parts by Margaretta D'Arcy( Book )

39 editions published between 1977 and 1986 in English and held by 339 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Brain based therapy for OCD : a workbook for clinicians and clients by John Arden( )

3 editions published in 2014 in English and held by 309 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Whatever the level of OCD, mild to severe, the step-by-step activities in the Brain Based Therapy for OCD: A Workbook for Clinicians and Clients will guide you or your client in developing skills to better cope with the disorder. * Decrease time spent obsessing and ritualizing *Neutralize anxiety-producing triggers = Lifestyle changes that reduce the anxiety underlying OCD * Manage setbacks and create a relapse prevention plan

The workhouse donkey : [a play] by John Arden( Book )

15 editions published between 1962 and 2013 in English and held by 306 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Arden's melodrama - i.e. a play with a musical accompaniment - is a sprawling, Rabelaisian comedy about local town-hall corruption that focuses on the downfall of 'the Napoleon of the North', Alderman Charlie Butterthwaite, the workhouse donkey of the title, who has risen from extreme poverty to dominate his local Labour Party and the town. A swaggering, charismatic, manipulative scoundrel, he has a gambling addiction, which is bankrolled by the Machiavellian, but self-aware Doctor Wellington Blomax. It is this relationship which has maintained Butterthwaite's power, and which will undermine it. The play was first performed at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1963

Ironhand by John Arden( Book )

12 editions published between 1965 and 1973 in 3 languages and held by 295 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Pearl : a play about a play within the play : written for radio by John Arden( Book )

4 editions published in 1979 in English and held by 293 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Silence among the weapons : some events at the time of the failure of a republic by John Arden( Book )

25 editions published between 1982 and 1983 in English and held by 281 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

I det 1. århundrede efter vor tidsregning ser en omrejsende græsk skuespiller på romerne og de folk, de undertrykker

The little gray home in the west : an Anglo-Irish melodrama by Margaretta D'Arcy( Book )

10 editions published between 1982 and 2013 in English and held by 276 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

'The Little Gray Home' in the West was a reworking of a 1972 play 'The Ballygombeen Bequest', described as 'a freewheeling Brechtian parable of sickness, colonialism and capitalism in Ireland'. A play with songs, and a spoonful of cynicism, 'The Little Gray Home in the West' tells the story of a businessman named Baker-Fortescue who has come to inherit a small estate in the south of Ireland, a place where communications with the locals, and the security of fences, is forever on a knife's edge

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