Plays Four - The Worlds, The Activists Papers, Restoration & Summer

Plays Four - The Worlds, The Activists Papers, Restoration & Summer

by EdwardBond (Author)

Synopsis

One of Britain's greatest living contemporary dramatists, Edward Bond is widely studied by schools and colleges. The collection includes a commentary by the author. Restoration towers like a colossus ...its stylistic wit, moral complexity and theatrical force are of the kind one associates with classic drama (Michael Billington). In settings both historical and modern, Edward Bond's plays continue to offer a wide-ranging political and moral critique of human society and human relationships. The fourth volume of his collected works contains his plays from the late seventies and early eighties.Edward Bond is a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright (Independent)

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 09 Mar 1992

ISBN 10: 0413648303
ISBN 13: 9780413648303

Author Bio
Edward Bond is widely regarded as the UK's greatest and most influently playwright. His plays include The Pope's Wedding (Royal Court Theatre, 1962), Saved (Royal Court, 1965), Early Morning (Royal Court, 1968), Lear (Royal Court, 1971), The Sea (Royal Court, 1973), The Fool (Royal Court, 1975), The Woman (National Theatre, 1978), Restoration (Royal Court, 1981) and The War Plays (RSC at the Barbican Pit, 1985).