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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'.

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Explore Methuen Drama
Published 01 Aug 2006
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 192
ISBN 9780413519504
Imprint Methuen Drama
Dimensions 198 x 129 mm
Series Student Editions
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Edward Bond

Anthology Editor

Patricia Hern

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