Arden may have fallen out of favour, but the intoxicating vigour of his language set him apart. I hope his day comes againTo anyone of my generation, the death of playwright John Arden is a bitter blow. His work is rarely seen these days " partly because he fell out badly with the British theatre establishment. But he was one of a quartet of dramatists, including John Osborne, Harold Pinter and Arnold Wesker, that en…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:39AM on April 2, 2012