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Edward Bond has been, since his controversial arrival on the theatrical
scene in 1965, one of Britain's most distinctive and important theatre
writers. This study examines his work, from The Pope's Wedding (1962) to
Coffee (1995). It gives an overview of the development of his
distinctive dramatic language and style, and looks at his experiments
with various theatrical forms and genres. It examines, too, the ways in
which Bond's insistence upon the necessity of the drama as an agent of
social evolution have determined his development as a dramatist. There
are sections which situate Bond's work within its wider theatrical and
political contexts, and which explore his concerns with issues such as
violence, technology and social evolution, as they are expressed in
plays such as Saved (1965), and Lear (1971). The study also deals with
Bond's continual dialogue with our cultural history.
