Bond, Edward

Overview

Works:	344 works in 1,582 publications in 8 languages and 28,184 library holdings
Genres:	Drama Film adaptations Criticism, interpretation, etc Thrillers (Motion pictures) Action and adventure films Detective and mystery films History Juvenile works Records and correspondence Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
Roles:	Author, Author of screenplay, Librettist, Translator, Other, Scenarist, Author of introduction, Bibliographic antecedent, Editor, Creator, Interviewee, Writer of accompanying material, Lyricist
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 )
Edward Bond : a companion to the plays by Malcolm Hay( Book )
The art and politics of Edward Bond by Lou Lappin( Book )
Edward Bond letters by Edward Bond( )
Selections from the notebooks of Edward Bond by Edward Bond( Book )
Politics in performance : the production work of Edward Bond, 1978-1990 by Ian Stuart( Book )
Edward Bond by Michael Mangan( 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 by Peter Iden( Book )
Edward Bond : Dialog und Sprachgestus by Maria Löschnigg( Book )

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Most widely held works by Edward Bond

Walkabout by Nicolas Roeg( Visual )

48 editions published between 1970 and 2016 in 4 languages and held by 1,618 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

Blowup by Michelangelo Antonioni( Visual )

27 editions published between 1966 and 2017 in 4 languages and held by 1,429 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder

Lear by Edward Bond( Book )

96 editions published between 1971 and 2016 in 8 languages and held by 1,299 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 )

104 editions published between 1965 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 1,253 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

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

14 editions published between 1999 and 2014 in English and held by 894 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

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

4 editions published in 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 797 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 766 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Plays : One by Edward Bond( Book )

62 editions published between 1977 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 742 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

25 editions published between 1978 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 699 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

'The Woman', premiered in 1978 at London's National Theatre, is set at the end of the Trojan War, recasting Hecuba (the wife of King Priam of Troy) as the main character, and reshaping the epic narrative into what Bond calls a 'socialist rhapsody'. Bond's play deviates from the orthodox narrative of the siege, emphasising instead its significance as a dissertation on morality and historical truth, and a celebration of individuals who can change society. It begins with Priam's death, showing the savage struggle over a statue of a goddess, a relic which Troy has stolen from Greece. Later, the half-blind Hecuba and half-mad Ismene are living on a remote island, where they meet an escaped miner searching for sanctuary, and the Greeks arrive still searching for their statue. 'The Woman' refuses resolution, offering instead a complex definition of social conflict

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

31 editions published between 1976 and 1981 in English and Undetermined and held by 575 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

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

27 editions published between 1985 and 1992 in English and held by 571 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

31 editions published between 1976 and 1990 in English and held by 555 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 )

23 editions published between 1979 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 538 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 )

32 editions published between 1973 and 2014 in English and held by 536 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 fascinating blend of wild farce, high comedy, biting social satire and bleak poetic tragedy

The Pope's wedding by Edward Bond( Book )

23 editions published between 1969 and 2013 in English and German and held by 491 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

Restoration & the cat by Edward Bond( Book )

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

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

33 editions published between 1974 and 1984 in 3 languages and held by 417 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Summer, and Fables : with Service, a story by Edward Bond( Book )

13 editions published between 1982 and 1985 in English and held by 399 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Summer is set in Eastern Europe in and around a house overlooking the sea. The play centers on an encounter between two women, whose pasts are terribly bound up with the German wartime occupation of the town and nearby islands. Forty years ago, Xenia's family threw dinner parties for the German officers in that very house; Marthe, the family servant, was taken prisoner along with many of the townspeople and condemned to be shot. Only Xenia's intervention saved Marthe's life. But now, Xenia lives in England and Marthe still lives in the house. Xenia's visit--and the news that Marthe is dying of an incurable disease--provokes a searing reappraisal of the meaning of the past events and of the present

Early morning by Edward Bond( Book )

34 editions published between 1968 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 373 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Royal Court Theatre produced Bond's surreal drama 'Early Morning' in 1967 despite a total ban by the Lord Chamberlain's office. It portrays a lesbian relationship between Queen Victoria and Florence Nightingale, the royal princes as Siamese twins, Disraeli and Prince Albert plotting a coup and the whole dramatis personae damned to a cannibalistic heaven after falling off Beachy Head

Plays : one by Frank Wedekind( Book )

13 editions published between 1993 and 2014 in English and held by 369 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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