Bond Plays: 3 Bingo; The Fool; The Woman; Stone

by Bond, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780413338907
• ISBN10: 0413338908
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-11-12
• Publisher: Methuen Drama

Summary

The internationally acclaimed dramatist Edward Bond endures as one of the towering figures of contemporary British theatre. His plays are read at schools and university level. "Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to have emerged from the sixtiThis collected volume contains three plays which continue Edward Bond's exploration of themes from Shakespeare and other classical authors. Bingo puts Shakespeare himself on stage in a critical account of the writer and Stratford landowner's final days. The Fool is based on the life and madness of the 19th-century working-class poet John Clare and The Woman is set at the end of the Trojan War with Hecuba as a main character, but instead of offering a resolution its Tempest-like second half defines the nature of social conflict. All three plays deal with the origins of the tensions of the modern world. Also included is Stone, a one-act parable of oppression.Edward Bond is "a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright" (Independent)

Table of Contents

Chronology of first performances	vi
Four Pieces
A Short Book for Troubled Times	vii
Tennis	xxi
A Talk	xxiii
Piano	xli
Bingo
Introduction	3	(10)
Bingo	13	(56)
The Fool
Introduction	69	(12)
The Fool	81	(74)
Clare Poems	155	(10)
The Woman
The Woman	165	(104)
Poems, Stories and Essays for The Woman	269	(38)
Stone
Author's Note	307	(2)
Stone	309