{"product_id":"arden-plays-1-9780413688002","title":"Arden Plays: 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): J.L. Benson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The modern English theatre has had its poets and it has had its dramatists but in John Arden it has acquired its first dramatic poet since - well, let's be rash - the days of Shakespeare.' - \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Waters of Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e 'This wild, acidly funny and oddly tragic story of London low-life... reveals Arden's tough linguistic freedom and the free-wheeling ease with which he switches from prose to verse and back again' Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLive Like Pigs\u003c\/i\u003e 'Thrilling theatre... a rumbustious delight, outrageously funny, powerfully dramatic and, when you least expect it, genuinely moving... a modern classic' Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Happy Haven \u003c\/i\u003e(written with Margaretta D'Arcy): 'This rare and excellent revival perfectly reflects the play's bizarre atmosphere, its potent mixture of farcical prose, rhymed poetry, its marked avoidance of schematic moral codes' Time Out\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSerjeant Musgrave's Dance\u003c\/i\u003e 'A modern classic... a white-hot piece of work... Since its first appearance in 1959, the play has advanced towards us as if in a slow prophetic march' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso included in the volume is \u003ci\u003eWhen is a Door not a Door?\u003c\/i\u003e, a one-act 'industrial episode'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45082301923479,"sku":"9780413688002","price":3104.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780413688002.webp?v=1767263143","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/arden-plays-1-9780413688002","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}