John Arden is an award-winning English playwright from Barnsley (which at the time was in the West Riding of Yorkshire). His works tend to expose social issues of personal concern. He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature. He was educated at Sedbergh School, King's College, Cambridge and Edinburgh College of Art, where he studied architecture. He first gained critical attention for the radio play, The Life of Man in 1956 shortly after finishing his studies.

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  • John Arden is an award-winning English playwright from Barnsley (which at the time was in the West Riding of Yorkshire). His works tend to expose social issues of personal concern. He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature. He was educated at Sedbergh School, King's College, Cambridge and Edinburgh College of Art, where he studied architecture. He first gained critical attention for the radio play, The Life of Man in 1956 shortly after finishing his studies. His 1959 play, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, dealing with the protestors of war and its realities, is considered Arden's best work. Arden is reputed to be one of the greatest playwrights of the post-Look Back in Anger era. His work bears the heavy influence of Bertolt Brecht and the Epic Theatre. Other plays include Live Like Pigs, The Workhouse Donkey and Armstrong's Last Goodnight, the last of which was performed at the National Theatre, starring Albert Finney. He has also written a number of novels, including Silence Among the Weapons, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Books of Bale, about the protestant apologist John Bale. He is notable for a number of highly public fallings-out with the theatre establishment - with his wife and co-writer Margaretta D'Arcy, he picketed the RSC premiere of his Arthurian play The Island of the Mighty; and they have written several plays highly critical of British presence in Ireland, where he now lives, and the Military-Industrial Complex. He has a long history of being associated with radical left-wing politics in the UK and Ireland. In 1961 he was a founder member of the anti-nuclear Committee of 100 and he also chaired the pacifist weekly, Peace News. In Ireland, he was for a while a member of Sinn Féin. He is also a well-known supporter of civil liberties and is critical of government anti-terror legislation, as was demonstrated in his 2007 radio play The Scam.
  • John Arden ist ein britischer Schriftsteller, der vor allem als Dramatiker und Hörspielautor bekannt wurde. Viele seiner Sujets betreffen die irisch-britische Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts.
  • John Arden es un dramaturgo británico. Estudió arquitectura en la Universidad de Cambridge y en el Colegio de Arte de Edimburgo. Sus obras teatrales mezclan la poesía y las coplas con el discurso coloquial de una forma audazmente dramática y tratan sobre intensos conflictos que a propósito se dejan sin resolver. Entre las obras de Arden se encuentran All Fall Down de 1955, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance de 1959, The Workhouse Donkey de 1963, Vandaleur's Folly de 1978 y la serie de programas de radio Whose Is the Kingdom? de 1988.
  • John Arden on englantilainen näytelmäkirjailija. Hänen parhaana työnään pidetään vuonna 1959 julkaistua näytelmää Serjeant Musgrave's Dance. Muita näytelmiä ovat muun muassa Live Like Pigs, The Workhouse Donkey ja Armstrong's Last Goodnight. Osan näytelmistään Arden on julkaissut yhdessä vaimonsa Margaretta D'Arcyn kanssa. "Britannian Brechtiksi" kutsuttu Arden on kirjoittanut myös romaaneja.
  • John Arden est un auteur dramatique britannique né à Barnsley en 1930.
  • John Arden - angielski pisarz, dramaturg, członek brytyjskiego Royal Society of Literature.
  • John Arden född 26 oktober 1930 i Barnsley, Yorkshire, är en engelsk dramatiker.
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  • John Arden is an award-winning English playwright from Barnsley (which at the time was in the West Riding of Yorkshire). His works tend to expose social issues of personal concern. He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature. He was educated at Sedbergh School, King's College, Cambridge and Edinburgh College of Art, where he studied architecture. He first gained critical attention for the radio play, The Life of Man in 1956 shortly after finishing his studies.
  • John Arden ist ein britischer Schriftsteller, der vor allem als Dramatiker und Hörspielautor bekannt wurde. Viele seiner Sujets betreffen die irisch-britische Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts.
  • John Arden es un dramaturgo británico. Estudió arquitectura en la Universidad de Cambridge y en el Colegio de Arte de Edimburgo. Sus obras teatrales mezclan la poesía y las coplas con el discurso coloquial de una forma audazmente dramática y tratan sobre intensos conflictos que a propósito se dejan sin resolver.
  • John Arden on englantilainen näytelmäkirjailija. Hänen parhaana työnään pidetään vuonna 1959 julkaistua näytelmää Serjeant Musgrave's Dance. Muita näytelmiä ovat muun muassa Live Like Pigs, The Workhouse Donkey ja Armstrong's Last Goodnight. Osan näytelmistään Arden on julkaissut yhdessä vaimonsa Margaretta D'Arcyn kanssa. "Britannian Brechtiksi" kutsuttu Arden on kirjoittanut myös romaaneja.
  • John Arden est un auteur dramatique britannique né à Barnsley en 1930.
  • John Arden - angielski pisarz, dramaturg, członek brytyjskiego Royal Society of Literature.
  • John Arden född 26 oktober 1930 i Barnsley, Yorkshire, är en engelsk dramatiker.
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