Abstract
Introducing his book of essays To Present the Pretence, John Arden describes some of the convictions he and Margaretta D’Arcy share about theatre and provides a helpful illustration: Pieter Bruegel’s painting The Battle Between Carnival and Lent. Its colourful and complex energies do more than display the specific features Arden points out; they also aptly symbolize his work as a whole.
John paddles up and down the long brown street
On two brown boats which are his two flat feet
And London houses blink at him and whisper ….
(John Arden, Here I come.)
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J. Arden, ‘Ancient Principles’, To Present the Pretence (Eyre Methuen, 1977) p. 12.
Ibid., p. 11.
J. Arden, Plays One (Methuen Master Playwrights, 1977) pp. 5–6.
See Encore, 11 December 1963.
Ibid.
Plays and Players, January 1972.
S. Beckett, Proust and Three Dialogues (Calder, 1970) p. 103.
See Esslin, The Peopled Wound (Methuen, 1970) p. 192n.
J. Osborne, Look Back in Anger (Faber, 1960) pp. 24–5.
B. Brecht. Criticism of the New York Production of Die Mutter. trans. Willett, in Brecht on Theatre (Methuen, 1965) p. 83.
See Tynan, Tynan Right and Left, (Longmans, 1967) p. 146.
A. Hunt, Arden (Eyre Methuen, 1974) p. 119.
Prawer, Marxism and World Literature (OUP, 1978) p. 214.
Note from an essay by R. H. Bowden.
Arden, Plays One (Methuen Master Playwrights, 1977) p. 8.
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Gray, F. (1982). Resources. In: John Arden. Macmillan Modern Dramatists. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16919-1_2
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