Selctions from the notebooks of Edward Bond. Volume 1, 1959 1980 / edited and introduced by Ian Stuart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stuart, Ian.

Series:

Diaries, Letters and Essays

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--Technique.

Drama.

Playwriting.

Bond, Edward--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Bond, Edward.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this first volume of notebooks, Edward Bond reveals himself to be one of the finest and most creative minds to have emerged in the twentieth century. Exploring the meeting point between politics and the art of the writer, Bond's notes chart the creative progress of his work and thinking over a twenty-year period, from 1959, when his first plays started to be produced at London's Royal Court Theatre, to 1979, when he had achieved fame as a major writer. While providing a detailed commentary on his plays the Notebooks also contain early play drafts, poems and stories, his thoughts on life, Br

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1 The Early Period: January-November 1959; 2 The Pope's Wedding: November 1959-March 1962; 3 Saved, Early Morning and Censorship: November 1963-March 1967; 4 Lear, Passion and The Sea: June 1970-April 1974; 5 On Art: July 1973-February 1974; 6 Great Wilbraham Papers: March 1974; 7 The Bundle, Stone and The Swing: February 1976-July 1977; 8 The Rothbury Papers: November 1978-August 1980; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 25, 2014).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4725-3668-1

OCLC:

870950841