by Edward Bond (Author), Patricia Hern (Editor)
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'.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: New Edition - New
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 14 Apr 1983
ISBN 10: 0413519503
ISBN 13: 9780413519504
Book Overview: Edward Bond is a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright (Independent)