UID:
almahu_9949386771702882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 249 pages)
ISBN:
9781000281132
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1000281132
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9781003043515
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1003043518
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9781000281156
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1000281159
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1000281175
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9781000281170
Content:
"Partners of the Imagination is the first in-depth study of the work of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy, partners in writing and cultural and political campaigns. Beginning in the 1950s, Arden and D'Arcy created a series of hugely admired plays performed at Britain's major theatres. Political activists, they worked tirelessly in the peace movement and the Northern Ireland 'Troubles', during which D'Arcy was gaoled. She is also a veteran of the Greenham Common Women's Peace camp. Their later work included Booker-listed novels, prize-winning stories, essays and radio plays, and D'Arcy founded and ran a Woman's Pirate Radio station. Raymond Williams described Arden as 'the most genuinely innovative' of the playwrights of his generation, and Chambers and Prior claimed that 'The Non-Stop Connolly Show', D'Arcy and Arden's six-play epic, 'has fair claim to being one of the finest pieces of post-war drama in the English language'. This study explores the connections between art and life, and between the responsibilities of the writer and the citizen. Importantly, it also evaluates the range of literary works (plays, poetry, novels, essays, polemics) created by these writers, both as literature and drama, and as controversialist activity in its own right. This work is a landmark examination of two hugely respected radical writers"--
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Chapter 1: A Yorkshire boyhood -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Stirrings -- Notes -- Chapter 3: An Irish girlhood -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The aspiring actress -- Notes -- Chapter 5: At the Royal Court Theatre -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Towards collaboration -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Festivals of anarchy -- Notes -- Chapter 8: A playwright without his breeches -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Alternatives -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Cartoons, archetypes, slogans, theatre -- Notes
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Chapter 11: Looking and seeing -- Notes -- Chapter 12: An activist theatre -- Notes -- Chapter 13: A mighty bust-up -- Notes -- Chapter 14: Ireland once again -- Notes -- Chapter 15: Non-stop -- Notes -- Chapter 16: Pinpricks and follies -- Notes -- Chapter 17: Unperson -- New person -- Notes -- Chapter 18: 'If you are beaten down, you just rise again!' -- Notes -- Chapter 19: Artists for freedom -- Notes -- Chapter 20: Pirate woman -- Notes -- Chapter 21: Undeviating paths -- Notes -- Chapter 22: The ink horn not yet dry -- Notes -- Chapter 23: Loose theatre -- Notes
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Chapter 24: 'This was not history. It has not passed' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Full length books by John Arden and/or Margaretta D'Arcy -- General Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Leach, Robert, 1942- Partners of the imagination ISBN 9780367489144
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003043515
