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Sex abuse hysteria. Medicine of the earth. Edward Bond has chosen in recent years to focus much of his work on plays for young people, arguing that drama helps children "to know themselves and their world and their relation to it". This book discusses some of his important plays for young people and offers case studies of various productions of them. Contributors examine how the plays have been used by teachers and theatre companies with young people and they explore the demands of acting and staging Bond.
One chapter is taken from the notes of Geoff Gillham, and one is written by Edward Bond. The book will be of interest to those who work in drama with young people, whether in theatre, community work or in schools. This study examines his work, from The Pope's Wedding to Coffee It gives an overview of the development of his distinctive dramatic language and style, and looks at his experiments with various theatrical forms and genres. It examines, too, the ways in which Bond's insistence upon the necessity of the drama as an agent of social evolution have determined his development as a dramatist.
There are sections which situate Bond's work within its wider theatrical and political contexts, and which explore his concerns with issues such as violence, technology and social evolution, as they are expressed in plays such as Saved , and Lear The study also deals with Bond's continual dialogue with our cultural history - with the ways in which he rewrites classic plays and plunders familiar theatrical genres in order to demythologize the past. The intertwining concepts of the correspondence between the macrocosm, body politic and microcosm in King Lear inheres in the King and the response of external nature towards his being, especially in the heath scene.
Here, one might argue that the locality in which Bond places his drama is not the place where Elizabethan values would be appropriate. Thus, the absences of these concepts seem normal. Firstly, the absence of the relation between the macrocosm and the body politic—le roi soleil 2 Norden, J.
A Christian familiar comfort quoted in Tillyard, , p. There were no storms, just Lear feeding himself on a leftover mumbling to himself rather serenely, not bellowing into the stormy night: My daughters have taken the bread from my stomach.
They grind it with my tears and the cries of famished children—and eat. I open my mouth and they place an old coin in my tongue. Lear here is portrayed as a running-away dog, asking for favor from his daughters.
When the king and the nobles are brought down to the bottom of the chain, nature turns into chaos. In King Lear, when the King is driven away to the heath, the rain and the sky seem to lament for his loss and for the authority he has bestowed upon the wrong descendants. Unlike Lear, who is, though, also escaping from his daughters to save his life, King Lear could retain his greatness through the storm breaking out as if the macrocosm is outraging at the crime done to its counterpart, the King.
Thus, nature does not represent anyone nor it deemed able to take revenge for anyone. The best nature could do in Lear is to cure him from the corruption of civilization he has grown old with and which he has set as a standard to raise his daughter and rule his subjects. Redefinition of the idea of morality and its necessity for human being The interconnections between law, order, morality and what is considered natural human behavior is another correspondence between the social and the natural in King Lear.
The idea of morality in Shakespeare is metaphysical and transcendental—the idea through which law and order are originated. First, there are the concepts of virtue and restraint as the striving for perfection to the upper hierarchy in the chain: the ideals needed to keep society safe, sound and in control. Morality in King Lear finds its absolute paragon in Cordelia. And his characters are regulated by social morality, which is comparable to those in Shakespeare who live their lives according to the sets of values established by social institutions.
Bond also insists on the ominous political implication of the ideas of virtue and restraint created by social institutions. In King Lear, the idea of virtue and morality is initiated by the Elizabethan belief in the hierarchy of beings and the righteous authority of the ruler who has been anointed by the divinity to have his right as the monarch.
In Lear, the ideas of virtue and morality still follow the same pattern, but Bond criticizes the system by showing the destructive consequences that follow along with it.
Bond re-characterizes the new Cordelia, the daughter not of a tyrannical king father but of a priest whose standard of social morality is inherited by her, to show that a person who is seen as virtuous could just be the same kind of ruler as Lear has been.
Her system of morality is not different from that of Lear when he was king. Bodice and Fontanelle are violent, as seen in their cruelty towards Warrington, because they have grown up all their life seeing the inhuman manner with which their father has treated the workers on the wall.
The characters in Bond are represented to be living in a techno-sphere where everything relies on human-constructed objects, depriving man of the ability to gratify his biological desire. The eye-removing machine is also a tool devised by technological advance only to make human suffering more casual. However, Bond stages the eye-removing scene of Lear as if it were a casual practice, accentuating his criticism of the modern worldview towards cruelty.
What man essentially needs is love, like King Lear, and to be raised with care regardless of regulation and decorum. His Lear, at the end of the play, performs such actions. In this action, Lear demonstrates, first, the act of change to his society by trying to exterminate the limits of society—the wall—he has set up by himself. Second, he takes the responsibility for the harms he has initiated into his society and shows the later generations working around the wall that they too could change their society.
Amplification of social criticism implicit in Shakespeare Justice in King Lear and Lear A traditional response … tends to treat Shakespeare as if he had the self-knowledge of modern man and fails to acknowledge the Tudor values that inform the text. The idea of absolute monarchy in Elizabethan society helps eradicate or at least reduce the wrongs done by King Lear to his daughters. However, the plights King Lear has gone through can be accounted for as reimbursement he has to pay back to those he has wronged.
King Lear and Lear operate their power through infantile egocentricity and they have to suffer its consequence by undergoing the condition they have imposed upon others. King Lear has to undergo suffering for having done wrong to Cordelia and Kent. His escape into the heath—though seen by some as purification—is palpably degradation—especially within Elizabethan doctrine —and is a punishment for his loss of reason.
Bond makes Lear responsible for the type of society and people he has created by teaching people of a just and liberated society through the analogy of the bird whose beautiful voice is lost after having been put in a cage, and by taking action in destroying the wall though he has to pay for it with his life. The nature of justice in King Lear is innate as a part of the center of the society, the King.
Justice in King Lear cannot perform its expected function as the punisher of the wrongdoer, since the mock trial of King Lear is operated by madmen and a fool. In portraying the trial thus, justice also is shown in its most absurd form as an exercise of power and vengeance of the powerless. The quotation is from a note I have taken during his lecture on Shakespeare in The criticism of justice that is implicit in King Lear is exploited by Bond.
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