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Lear

Lear

Lear
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Lear Paperback - 2009

by Bond, Edward

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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Used - Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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  • Title Lear
  • Author Bond, Edward
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First This Editi
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London
  • Publication date 2009-05-07
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP17175347
  • ISBN 9780413519504 / 0413519503
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.76 x 5.26 x 0.49 in (19.71 x 13.36 x 1.24 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Plays / Drama
  • Dewey Decimal Code 822.914
  • Quantity available 2

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Reader reviews for Lear

From the publisher

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'.

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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