Serjeant Musgrave's Dance Essays and Criticism

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Serjeant Musgrave's Dance | Essays and Criticism

• This Play as a Pro-War and Pro-Army Drama

  In this essay, the author contends that though most critics and scholars maintain that Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance promotes pacifism, the play is actually a pro-war and pro-army drama.

• Life and Love and Serjeant Musgrave: An Approach to Arden’s Play

  In the following essay, the author examines the conflict between the plot structure of the play and Musgrave’s message.

• Shakespearian Reminiscences in Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance

  In the following essay, the author discusses similarities between Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance and various plays by Shakespeare, notably Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet.

• Religious Ritual in Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance

  In the following essay, the author suggests that Musgrave’s first dance partakes of ritual elements in ‘‘a grotesque parody of the Christian ‘slaying of winter’—the Crucifixion—and a perversion of its essential meaning.’’

• Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance : Form and Meaning

  In the following essay, the author describes Musgrave as an ‘‘Old Testament avenger’’ in a morality play indebted to the Elizabethan romantic and dramatic tradition.

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