Synopsis
Sergeant Musgrave's Dance - STUDENT EDITION with Notes
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Published by Methuen
Set between 1860 and 1880, four deserters bring the body of a dead soldier back to his home town, a mining community in the grip of a coal strike and cut off by snow
Their leader, Serjeant Musgrave, plans to hold the town at gunpoint and confront its people with the realities of warfare
Arden's play questions the military principle of "Obey or suffer" and the cruelty and futility of war
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1959 and is one of the greatest plays of the 20C