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. This work is a landmark examination of two hugely-respected radical writers.

Robert Leach is a theatre director as well as an academic. Educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, he has taught at Birmingham and Edinburgh Universities. He has published many books on theatre-related subjects, most recently from Routledge the two-volume Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance.

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Introduction

Acknowledgements

Prologue

One: A Yorkshire Boyhood

Two: Stirrings

Three: An Irish Girlhood

Four: The Aspiring Actress

Five: At the Royal Court Theatre

Six: Towards Collaboration

Seven: Festivals of Anarchy

Eight: A Playwright Without His Breeches

Nine: Alternatives in Politics and Theatre

Ten: Cartoons, Archetypes, Slogans, Theatre

Eleven: Looking and Seeing

Twelve: An Activist Theatre

Thirteen: A Mighty Bust-Up

Fourteen: Ireland Once Again

Fifteen: Non-Stop

Sixteen: Pinpricks and Follies

Seventeen: Unperson - New Person

Eighteen: 'If You Are Beaten Down, You Just Rise Again!'

Nineteen: Artists for Freedom

Twenty: Pirate Woman

Twenty-one: Undeviating Paths

Twenty-two: The Ink Horn Not Yet Dry

Twenty-three: Loose Theatre

Twenty-four: 'This Was Not History. It Has Not Passed'

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