Introduction Some plays land like a raindrop; others rumble in the landscape. Roots, the powerful heart of Arnold Wesker’s celebrated Wesker Trilogy, rolled onto the British stage in 1959 and has echoed in literary circles ever since. Born to a working-class Jewish family in London, Wesker’s pen never wandered far from the daily grind and emotional tumult he experienced firsthand: arguments at the dinner table, the scraping together of change, the relentless push for dignity. His dramas, especially Roots, aren’t...