Bond, Edward

Overview

Works:	365 works in 1,699 publications in 9 languages and 29,820 library holdings
Genres:	Drama Criticism, interpretation, etc Film adaptations Thrillers (Motion pictures) Action and adventure films One-act plays History Juvenile works Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc Records and correspondence
Roles:	Author, Author of screenplay, Librettist, Translator, Other, Scenarist, Author of introduction, Editor, Creator, Restager , Lyricist, Bibliographic antecedent, Interviewee, Writer of accompanying material
Classifications:	PR6052.O5, 822.914

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Edward Bond

Modern British playwriting. voices, documents, new interpretations by Steve Nicholson( )
Bond, a study of his plays by Malcolm Hay( Book )
The plays of Edward Bond : a study by Tony Coult( Book )
Edward Bond by Simon Trussler( Book )
Bond on file by Philip Roberts( Book )

The plays of Edward Bond by Richard G Scharine( Book )
Edward Bond by David L Hirst( Book )
Dramatic strategies in the plays of Edward Bond by Jenny S Spencer( Book )
Edward Bond: a critical study by Peter Billingham( Book )
Selections from the notebooks of Edward Bond by Edward Bond( Book )
Edward Bond : a companion to the plays by Malcolm Hay( Book )
Edward Bond by Michael Mangan( Book )
The art and politics of Edward Bond by Lou Lappin( Book )
Edward Bond letters by Edward Bond( )
Politics in performance : the production work of Edward Bond, 1978-1990 by Ian Stuart( Book )
Edward Bond and the dramatic child : Edward Bond's plays for young people( Book )
Edward Bond, Dialektik des Weltbildes und dramatische Gestaltung by Peter Wolfensperger( Book )
Edward Bond : the playwright speaks by Edward Bond( Book )
Early morning by Edward Bond( Book )
Edward Bond : Dialog und Sprachgestus by Maria Löschnigg( Book )

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Most widely held works by Edward Bond

Lear by Edward Bond( Book )

101 editions published between 1971 and 2016 in 8 languages and held by 1,329 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"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

Saved by Edward Bond( Book )

110 editions published between 1965 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 1,301 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A play set in London in the sixties and reflects a time of social change. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young people on the dole and living on council estates. The play was first staged privately in November 1965 at the Royal Court Theatre for members of the English Stage Society at a time when plays were still censored

Blowup by Michelangelo Antonioni( Visual )

23 editions published between 1966 and 2017 in 4 languages and held by 1,167 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

When fashion photographer Thomas develops the negatives of some film he has taken of an embracing couple in a park, he notices that there is a gunman lurking in the bushes behind them. Returning to the scene, he discovers the corpse of the male half of the couple, but, when he visits the site the following morning, the body has disappeared. Michelangelo Antonioni's arty musing on the nature of film, set against a swinging London backdrop, also features Vanessa Redgrave as the dead man's lover

The hidden plot : notes on theatre and the state by Edward Bond( )

15 editions published between 1999 and 2014 in English and held by 910 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An important, urgent book of essays from Britain's most challenging dramatist: "" ... a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright."" (The Independent). This collection of passionate and polemical essays deals with drama from its origin in the human mind to its use in history and the present. It explains the hidden working of drama behind the state, religion, family, crime and war. It is a revolutionary understanding of the human world with drama at its centre. A ruthless critique of the theatre's present state and its trivialisa

Walkabout by Nicolas Roeg( Visual )

47 editions published between 1970 and 2016 in 4 languages and held by 888 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout, ' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone

Applied theatre in action : a journey by J. S Hartley( )

4 editions published in 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 806 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Dr Hartley who works internationally in applied theatre, presents the practice with passion and intellectual clarity, showing how it can be used by practitioners in and outside the world of theatre. She dispels the mystique around applied theatre and argues for it to develop with each project, so it never becomes stagnant

Narrow road to the deep north; a comedy by Edward Bond( Book )

31 editions published between 1968 and 1985 in English and Undetermined and held by 780 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"A war parable set in 19th century Japan; enlightenment is where you are." --doollee.com

Plays : One by Edward Bond( Book )

54 editions published between 1977 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 748 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Walkabout by Jenny Agutter( Visual )

7 editions published between 1998 and 2010 in English and held by 719 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"--A tribal initiation into manhood. This is the original director's cut

The woman : scenes of war and freedom by Edward Bond( Book )

28 editions published between 1978 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 710 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The power of hate and destruction vs love and reconciliation." --doollee.com

A-A-America! ; &, Stone by Edward Bond( Book )

29 editions published between 1976 and 1981 in English and Undetermined and held by 583 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A-A-America! is an anti-capitalist- racist and violence short play. All three plays are about injustice

The fool ; and, We come to the river by Edward Bond( Book )

24 editions published between 1976 and 1990 in English and held by 551 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bevat een toneelstuk dat zich afspeelt in Engeland in het begin van de 19e eeuw gedurende de opkomende industrialisatie, poëzie en het libretto voor de opera "We come to the river"

Spring awakening by Frank Wedekind( Book )

25 editions published between 1979 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 548 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tragedy results as three adolescents seek to balance their natural sexual desires with the dictates of repressive and hypocritical society

The sea : a comedy by Edward Bond( Book )

29 editions published between 1973 and 2014 in English and held by 539 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"A wild storm shakes a small East Anglian seaside village and sets off a series of events that changes the lives of all its residents. Set in the high Edwardian world of 1907, The Sea is a blend of wild farce, high comedy, biting social satire and poetic tragedy." "The Sea was first produced at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1973 and was revived at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, in January 2008."--BOOK JACKET

The Pope's wedding by Edward Bond( Book )

25 editions published between 1969 and 2013 in English and German and held by 514 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bond's real first play, 'The Pope's Wedding', was staged as a Sunday night 'performance without décor' at the Royal Court Theatre in 1962. This is a falsely naturalistic drama (the title refers to 'an impossible ceremony') set in contemporary Essex which shows, through a set of tragic circumstances, the death of rural society brought about by modern post-war urban living standards

The bundle : or, New narrow road to the deep north by Edward Bond( Book )

19 editions published between 1978 and 2013 in English and held by 469 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Narrow road to the deep north - "A war parable set in 19th century Japan; enlightenment is where you are." --doollee.com

Restoration & the cat by Edward Bond( Book )

19 editions published in 1982 in English and held by 467 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The worlds, with the activists papers by Edward Bond( Book )

11 editions published in 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 422 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The worlds offers a lucid examination of the violent machinery of capitalism, the politics of industrial action, and the use of terrorism. After a difficult week trying to deal with a strike by his organisation's employees, Trench goes away for the weekend to a smart country hotel, to dispense wisdom to his boardroom protégés. He is then suddenly kidnapped, his captors holding him hostage until the demands of the strikers are met. Meanwhile, his workers shiver on the picket line, trying to figure out why some men get to follow different rules. And while Trench is absent, his protégés find they appreciate being in charge, and the ruthlessness of the corporation turns in on itself

Bingo : scenes of money and death ; [and, Passion] by Edward Bond( Book )

29 editions published between 1974 and 1984 in English and Undetermined and held by 419 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The war plays : a trilogy by Edward Bond( Book )

23 editions published between 1985 and 1992 in English and held by 419 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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