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29 de may. de 2023 · Patrick McGoohan and John Thaw star in this intense television adaptation of John Arden's remarkable play, adapted here by Arden himself. Acknowledged as one of the most important dramatic works to explore the futility and dehumanisation of war, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance is set against a background of 19th century imperialist conflict and, in a performance considered one of his finest ...
Guilt Guilt and remorse underscore much of Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance. Musgrave is overcome by guilt over the death of Billy Hicks as well as the five civilians who were killed in retaliation.
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. Serjeant Musgrave's Dance was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1959.This volume contains expert notes on ...
Futility of being a wacky mutineer is one of the significant matters used in Arden’s Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance. This mainly implied matter exploited by Arden to intentionally criticize the war ...
Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance can be set firmly within two contexts: the “angry young men” of the 1950’s and the “Yorkshire writers” of the same era. The two groups are not quite the same ...
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance wurde u.a. 1965 am Royal Court Theatre und 1981 am National Theatre in London wieder aufgeführt. Eine Neuinszenierung durch die Oxford Stage Company im Jahr 2003 machte deutlich, wie wenig dieses Stück vor dem Hintergrund der Irak- und Afghanistankriege an Aktualität verloren hat.
22 de oct. de 2012 · Serjeant Musgrave's dance : an un-historical parable by Arden, John. Publication date 1966 Publisher London : Methuen Collection internetarchivebooks; toronto; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English. 104 p. ; 19 cm Notes. No table-of-contents pages found.
