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Lear

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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  • ""Avec le mythe du vieux roi dépossédé, chassé par deux filles cruelles, c'est la société contemporaine que Bond explore, dénonçant par des images scéniques brutales les mille formes de la violence, et tentant de lui opposer, dans un combat inégal, les armes fragiles de la justice et de la compassion."
  • ""In this play of shattering power, an authoritarian monarch is overthrown by his daughters who, in turn, find the possession of power to be fatally evil. "I have all the power and yet I am a slave." In a popular insurrection, a peasant woman takes power and becomes even more cruel. As the play ends, another insurrection is in preparation and it's clear that the brutal cycle will endlessly repeat itself."--Publisher's description."
  • "Avec le mythe du vieux roi dépossédé, chassé par deux filles cruelles, c'est la société contemporaine que Bond explore, dénonçant par des images scéniques brutales les mille formes de la violence, et tentant de lui opposer, dans un combat inégal, les armes fragiles de la justice et de la compassion."
  • "Bewerking van het gelijknamige Shakespeare drama."
  • "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'."@en

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  • "Theaterstück"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Dramat angielski"
  • "Toneelstukken (teksten)"
  • "Tragedies"
  • "Tragedies"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Lear"
  • "Lear"@en
  • "Lear"@ca
  • "Lear"@da
  • "Lear [Student Edition]"
  • "Lear [dt.]"
  • "Lear : a full length play"
  • "Lear : Theaterstück"
  • "Lear ; La mer"
  • "Lear [u.a.]"
  • "Lear : [Paris, Théâtre national populaire, 8 avril 1975]"
  • "Lear : [Schauspiel]"

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