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Edward Bond

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Because of its pivotal scene, which involves the stoning to death of a baby by a gang of young toughs in a London park, Edward Bond's first major production, Saved (1965), was banned in its entirety by the Lord Chamberlain. In drawing attention to the plot, the censor drew attention away from the play's techniques. A distracting violence is still the center of Bond's works Early Morning (1968), The Sea ( ), and The Bundle (1978). Bond's violence is not simply an image of evil or crude dramatic shock. It is meant as something to come to terms with intellectually, or even-as in The Bundle-to be agreed to, as the price of effective action. In its obviousness, Bond's brutality challenges the audience to acknowledge its own hidden, structural ruthlessness. The playwright's ideas, however, often seem inadequately worked out and inadequately expressed in prefaces that share nothing of the vivacity and clarity of those of George Bernard Shaw. Bond has never lost touch with an impressive stiff poetry of the stage, which is most evident in Bingo, about Shakespeare's last days, and The Fool (1976), about the madness of the poet John Clare. Among Bond's more recent works are The Worlds (1979), and a trilogy, The War Plays (1985). (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Saved… (more)
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Works by Edward Bond
Saved 137 copies, 4 reviews
Lear 115 copies, 1 review
Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass;… 88 copies
Plays: One - Saved, Early Morning, The Pope's Wedding 86 copies, 1 review
Walkabout [1971 film] (Screenwriter) 86 copies, 1 review
Bingo 53 copies, 1 review
The Sea (Modern Plays) 37 copies
Narrow Road to the Deep North (Modern Plays) 32 copies
The Woman (Modern Plays) 27 copies
Bond Plays: 3: Bingo; The Fool; The Woman; Stone (Contemporary Dramatists)… 27 copies
Restoration 19 copies
The war plays : a trilogy 16 copies
Early Morning (Playscripts) 14 copies, 1 review
Fool and We Come to the River 14 copies
Summer 13 copies
RESTORATION & THE CAT 2E (Modern Plays) 11 copies
The Hidden Plot 10 copies
A-A-America! & Stone 10 copies
Selections from the Notebooks of Edward Bond, Volume One: 1959 to 1980 9 copies
Spreading the Gospel in Colonial Virginia: Preaching Religion and… 9 copies
Bond Plays: 4: Worlds with Activists , Restoration and Summer… 9 copies
FOOL & WE COME TO THE RIVER (Modern Plays) 8 copies
Poems: 1978 1985 (A Methuen paperback) 7 copies
Summer and Fables (Modern Plays) 7 copies, 1 review
La Compagnie des hommes 7 copies
Plays 7 6 copies
Bingo & The Sea: Two plays (A Mermaid dramabook) 6 copies
Pope's Wedding (Modern Plays) 6 copies
Spectaculum 68. Fünf moderne Theaterstücke und Materialien. 5 copies
Theatre poems and songs 5 copies
The Worlds 5 copies
Derek ; and, Choruses from After the assassinations 4 copies
The Worlds, With the Activists Papers (Modern Plays) 4 copies
The Crime of the Twenty-first Century (Modern Plays) 4 copies
Bond Plays: 5: The Bundle , Human Cannon , Jackets , In the Company of Men… 4 copies
Bond Plays: 8: Born, People, Chair, Existence, and The Under Room (Methuen… 4 copies
Les enfants 4 copies
Time to Smile: Level 6 4 copies
TWO POST MODERN PLAYS (Methuen Modern Plays) 4 copies
Pièces de Guerre I et II 4 copies
Gered / Edward Bond. Wanneer heb je mijn moeder voor het laatst gezien? /… 3 copies
Le Numéro d'équilibre ; La Pierre ; La Petite Electre 3 copies
Eleven vests ; &, Tuesday 3 copies
Olly's Prison (Modern Plays) 3 copies
Tuesday (Methuen Modern Plays) 3 copies
Coffee (Modern Plays) 3 copies
The Children (Methuen Modern Plays) 3 copies
Human Cannon 3 copies
We Come to The River - Wie erreichen den Fluss 2 copies
Edward Bond letters. III 2 copies
Estiu 2 copies
Lear, suivi de "La mer" 2 copies
˜Le œcrime du XXIe siècle 2 copies
Bond Plays: 10: Dea, The Testament of this Day, The Price of One, The… 2 copies
Mardi: suivi de l'essai L'enfant dramatique 2 copies
Été 2 copies
Naître 2 copies
Bond Plays: 6: The War Plays; Choruses from After the Assassinations… 2 copies
Die englische Katze / La Chatte anglaise 2 copies
Si ce n'est toi ; Existence ; Chaise 2 copies
At The Inland Sea (Modern Plays) 2 copies
Pièces de guerre. Grande Paix 2 copies
The Activists Papers 2 copies
Bond Plays: 9: Innocence; Window, Tune, Balancing Act; The Edge… 1 copy
Rot, schwarz und ignorant 1 copy
Maison d'arrêt 1 copy
Bingo scs d'argent et de mort 1 copy
Passion (in Plays and Players) 1 copy
El angosto camino hacia el profundo norte 1 copy
Check-up (Sciences humaines) (French Edition) 1 copy
Bond Plays: 5: The Bundle; Human Cannon; Jackets; In the Company of Men… 1 copy
Service (in Summer) 1 copy
Bond Plays: 9: Innocence, The Balancing Act, Tune, A Window, The Edge 1 copy
Coros para Depois dos Assassinatos 1 copy
The chair plays 1 copy
Edward Bond: Letters 5 1 copy
Restoration, A Full-Length Play 1 copy
Eleven Vests' & 'Tuesday' (Modern Plays) 1 copy
Fables 1 copy
Spectaculum. 11. 6 moderne Theaterstücke 1 copy
Jackets ou La main secrète 1 copy
Auprès de la mer intérieure: une pièce pour les jeunes gens 1 copy
El Angosto camino hacia el profundo norte ; Misa negra ; Pasión 1 copy
Jacketts oder Die geheime Hand. September : zwei Stücke. Notizen zur… 1 copy
SAVED - PLAYBILL - MARCH 2001 - VOL. 117 - NO. 3 1 copy
La Trame cachée : Notes sur le théâtre et l'Etat 1 copy
Three Sisters (CHEKHOV) 1 copy
Le Bord ; Le Bol affamé ; Les Routes en colère 1 copy, 1 review
The Fool & We Come to the River (Modern Plays) by Edward Bond (1976-07-15) 1 copy
Das Verbrechen des 21. Jahrhunderts / Die Kinder. 1 copy
'Eleven Vests' & 'Tuesday' (Modern Plays) 1 copy
"Saved", In: The Plays of The Sixties (vol. one) 1 copy
˜Le œfou: scènes de pain et d'amour 1 copy
Gerettet / Die Hochzeit des Papstes. 1 copy
Spreading the Gospel in Colonial Virginia: Sermons and Devotional Writings 1 copy
The Children & Have I None (Modern Plays) 1 copy
THE WAR PLAYS A TRILOGY PART ONE: RED BLACK AND IGNORANT 1 copy
˜L'œénergie du sens 1 copy
Café: une tragédie 1 copy
Au petit matin 1 copy
the sea 1 copy
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Also by Edward Bond
Spring Awakening (Translator, some editions) 851 copies, 8 reviews
Blow-Up [1967 film] (Criterion Collection) (Screenwriter., some editions) 13 copies
Spectaculum 13: Beckett - Atem/Spiel ohne Worte I u. II, Bond - Trauer zu… (Contributor) 2 copies
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