Edward Bond: A Critical Study

by Billingham, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780230367395
• ISBN10: 0230367399
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-11-20
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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 readable 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 There Will Be More, alongside explorations of widely studied plays such as Saved.

Author Biography

Peter Billingham is Reader in Modern Drama and Playwriting at the University of Winchester, UK. He is an established and experienced teacher, researcher and playwright. His study of five contemporary British playwrights At the Sharp End (2007) was nominated for the Theatre Book Prize (2008). He is an award-winning playwright who has had work produced in London, Milan and Como.

Table of Contents

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?'