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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787773603321

Autore

Bond Edward

Titolo

The hidden plot : notes on theatre and the state / / Edward Bond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Methuen, , 2020

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020

ISBN

1-4081-6994-0

1-4081-7141-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Collana

Diaries, Letters and Essays

Classificazione

17.86

24.02

HN 2230

Disciplina

809.2

Soggetti

Drama - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Theater and society

Theater - Philosophy

Theater and state

Theater - History

Theatre studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Letter to Tom Erhardt; A Writer's Story; Our Story; Language; Modern Drama; Drama; Le Théâtre de la Cité; Letter on Translation; Pearl White: Notes on the TE of the Text; The Site; Letter on Design; I Wrote a Poem; Notes on Theatre-in-Education; Oranges; Rough Notes on Justice; Rough Notes on Intolerance; Notebook, 31 January 1996; The Eschatology of Bread: Christ and the Bearded Lady (Notebook, 3 August 1995); Social Madness; William Shakespeare's Last Notebook; The Labyrinth; The Faustian Trap; The Reason for Theatre; Lear War

Notes on Coffee for Le Théâtre National de la CollineLetter on Brecht; The Seventh of January Sixteen Hundred and Ten; People Saturated with the Universe (Notes on The Crime of the Twenty-first Century for Le Théâtre de la Colline)

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of passionate and polemical essays deals with drama



from its origin in the human mind to the use made of it in history and the present. It explains the hidden working of drama behind the state, religion, family, crime and war.