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- ISBN 9781041061908
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 1977, The Plays of Edward Bond offers help and stimulation to readers and theatre-goers who want to know more about Edward Bond's recurrent concerns as a playwright. In attempting to counter much of the received critical opinion about Bond’s work, Tony Coult sets out to show how Bond’s attitudes to religion and superstition, nature and politics, the family and the individual are given brilliant theatrical form in the plays. There are, too, chapters on the plays in performance, dealing with language and stagecraft, and on the often stormy history of Bond’s relationship with the British Theatre. This makes for a fresh and unusual approach to a playwright’s work, and one particularly situated to the closely related rational theatre of Edward bond. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of theatre and performance studies and British theatre.
Tony Coult is a playwright and arts journalist. He has written studies of Edward Bond and Brian Friel and co-edited The Welfare State Handbook. His PhD thesis Constructive Work to Do traced the history of The Arts Council of Great Britain and its relationship to drama for young people.
His plays and dramatisations have been performed by community theatre and theatre-in-education companies and broadcast by BBC Radio. Since 2015, he has curated the website of Edward Bond at https://edwardbonddrama.org/
