Lear (Modern Plays)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0413287602
ISBN 13
9780413287601
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1972
Publisher
Pages
104
Description
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'. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
