Lear - (Student Editions) by Edward Bond (Paperback)

Name: Lear - (Student Editions) by Edward Bond (Paperback)
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Edward Bond's version of Lear's story embraces myth and reality, war and politics, to reveal the violence endemic in all unjust societies.
About the Author: Edward Bond is one of the great British playwrights of the twentieth/twenty-first centuries.
192 Pages
Drama, European
Series Name: Student Editions

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About the Book

'Bond's greatest (and biggest) play ... it is even more topical now and will become more so as man's inhumanity gains subtle sophistication' The Times

Book Synopsis

Edward Bond's version of Lear's story embraces myth and reality, war and politics, to reveal the violence endemic in all unjust societies. He exposes corrupted innocence as the core of social morality, and this false morality as a source of the aggressive tension which must ultimately destroy that society. In a play in which blindness becomes a dramatic metaphor for insight, Bond warns that 'it is so easy to subordinate justice to power, but when this happens power takes on the dynamics and dialectics of aggression, and then nothing is really changed'.

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"Bond's greatest (and biggest) play ... it is even more topical now and will become more so as man's inhumanity gains subtle sophistication" --The Times

About the Author

Edward Bond is one of the great British playwrights of the twentieth/twenty-first centuries. In 1965 his grim portrait of urban violence, Saved, in which a baby is stoned in its pram, aroused much admiration as well as a ban from the Lord Chamberlain. His provocative plays including Early Morning (1969), Lear (1971), The Sea (1973), The Fool (1975), Restoration (1981), Summer (1982), The War Plays (1985) and Olly's Prison (1992)] continue to arouse extreme responses from critics and audiences.

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Dimensions (Overall): 7.76 Inches (H) x 5.26 Inches (W) x .49 Inches (D)

Weight: .35 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 192

Genre: Drama

Sub-Genre: European

Series Title: Student Editions

Publisher: Methuen Drama

Theme: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Format: Paperback

Author: Edward Bond

Language: English

Street Date: May 7, 2009

TCIN: 90812403

UPC: 9780413519504

Item Number (DPCI): 247-45-8787

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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