Silence Among the Weapons

by John Arden

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Entre los años 91 y 81 a.C., se produce un violento enfrentamiento político entre Sila y Cayo Mario, del que nadie puede mantenerse al margen. La documentada reconstrucción de ese conflicto condiciona toda la acción, cuyo protagonista es un verdadero hombre de teatro que, obligado a dejar las tablas a causa de un accidente, decide ejercer de productor, ayudante de dirección y agente de artistas. Pero no corren buenos tiempos para las artes escénicas. Estamos ante un ejercicio literario de primera magnitud: las memorias de un actor frustrado, arrastrado por los acontecimientos a su pesar, envuelto en unas oscuras intrigas que convertir n su vida en un auténtico torbellino en el que no faltan los tumultos populares, los crímenes y show more las traiciones, pero tampoco la pasión amorosa. show less

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John Arden's is a striking case of the alienation that has overtaken a number of the original "angry" playwrights including Arnold Wesker and John Osborne in an age of subsidized theater and broadly tolerant audiences. Trained as an architect, Arden was one of the Royal Court discoveries. His plays Live Like Pigs (1958) and, particularly, Serjeant show more Musgrave's Dance (1958), while not initially successes, have become modern classics. Political dogmatism, absorption with Irish problems, and militancy entered Arden's drama in 1967, when he became a full-time collaborator in writing with his wife Margaretta D'Arcy. His own plays-from The Water of Babylon (1957) through Armstrong's Last Goodnight (1964) and Left-Handed Liberty (1965)-are imaginative, often balladlike, and politically inconclusive. Poetic qualities are not altogether absent from his later plays, such as The Island of the Mighty (1972). (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Silence Among the Weapons

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
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PR6051 .R3 .V6Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000

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