Edward Bond Summary

British playwright and author Edward Bond has created over thirty plays, including his groundbreaking Saved, a metaphorical tale of an infanticide that aroused violent controversy in his native Englan... Read more

Critical Essay by Martin Esslin What a brilliant play Saved is, how well it has stood the test of time! Bond has succeeded in making the inarticulate, in their very inability to express themselves, b... Read more

Critical Essay by John Peter [No] one would have guessed from the title or the sub-title [of Edward Bond's Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death] that its hero was William Shakespeare. This is enti... Read more

Critical Essay by John Worthen [Bond makes] a vital distinction between himself and those writers who use theatrical violence—or sex, for that matter—to outrage an audience and to give ... Read more

Critical Essay by Oliver Taplin At the end of Edward Bond's impressive new play The Woman there is blood on the stage and the courts and temples of capitalism have begun to crumble. The Dark M... Read more

Critical Essay by Leslie Smith Imagine, if you will, a mixture of the plays of Brecht and Strindberg, Brecht's social and political purposiveness allied to Strindberg's tormented vision... Read more

Critical Essay by Mick Martin [In] The Activists Papers (published with, and constituting, the author informs us, an introduction to his play The Worlds) [Bond] entreats: 'We mustn't tr... Read more

Critical Essay by Eva Figes Edward Bond's new play [Summer: A European Play] … is set in an unnamed country which seems to be Yugoslavia; a sunny Mediterranean land with a growing touri... Read more