[This entry was updated by T. F. Evans (Staffordshire, England) from his entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 424-445.] Arnold Wesker was born in Stepney in the East End of London. His father, Joseph Wesker, was...

Arnold Wesker was born in Stepney in the East End of London. His father, Joseph Wesker, was a tailor of Russian-Jewish extraction, and his mother, Leah Perlmutter Wesker, was Hungarian. Stepney is in a poor part of the city, and Wesker's mother helped...

British playwright Arnold Wesker is reviving his acclaimed plays of the 1950s and 60s which depicted oppressed working classes now that political dramas are resurging. 'The Kitchen,' playing in London, depicts restaurant action and class tensions superbly but is lacking in plot. IT...

ONE OF the original Angry Young Men of British theatre is about to astonish the literary establishment by publishing a collection of 12 highly explicit, erotic tales. Arnold Wesker, who became a leading playwright in the Sixties and Seventies, with gritty successes such...