Edward Bond: A Critical Study [electronic resource] /
Billingham, P.author.
This new study of one of Britain's greatest modern playwrights represents the first major, extended discussion of Edward Bond's work in over twenty years. The book combines rigorous and stimulating analysis and discussion of Bond's plays and ideas about drama and society. For the first time, there is also discussion of selected plays from his later, post-2000 period, including Innocence and Have I None, alongside explorations of widely studied plays such as Saved.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION: 'Wearing Dead Men's Clothes': Addressing the Past, Re-Dressing the Future -- Interview 1. 'The Human Voice Will Comfort us': Edward Bond in Interview with Peter Billingham -- 1. 'Your Morality is Violence': Politicising the Past -- Interview 2. 'Staging Saved': Sean Holmes in Interview with Peter Billingham -- 2. 'Learning to Sing in the Ruins': The Later Plays, 1995-2012 -- Interview 3. 'Tell me a Story': Chris Cooper in Interview with Peter Billingham -- CONCLUSION: 'Was Anything Done?'.
This new study of one of Britain's greatest modern playwrights represents the first major, extended discussion of Edward Bond's work in over twenty years. The book combines rigorous and stimulating analysis and discussion of Bond's plays and ideas about drama and society. For the first time, there is also discussion of selected plays from his later, post-2000 period, including Innocence and Have I None, alongside explorations of widely studied plays such as Saved.
Bond, Edward
Theater—History.
Motion pictures—Production and direction.
Theater.
Performing arts.
Literature.
British literature.
Theatre History.
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Theatre and Performance Studies.
Performing Arts.
Literature, general.
British and Irish Literature.