Women in Edward Bond Hardback

by Susana Nicolas Roman

Part of the Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture series

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Description

This book focuses on an unexplored area of Edward Bondâ€™s writing.

While different studies examine the violence present in his plays or his dramatic theory, questions around his powerful female characters have remained unsolved.

None of the criticism has developed specifically the role of these women as speakers of their social context.

The human condition that Bond depicts in his plays is not gender-oriented.

From his early plays, Edward Bond has been considered misogynist, but this book presents the possibility to discover a different Bond as a writer on women with powerful voices. The reader of this book will discover in these women female spokeswomen of revolution, committed and suffering mothers but also the personification of evil and wickedness.

Emotions and ideas will be analyzed in these pages in a journey through Bondâ€™s feminine universe closer to reality than to stage.

Justice, the essence of humanity or the nature of oppression are dealt with through the construction of brilliant characters with no possibility of catharsis.

This vision of drama as a social forum clearly exemplifies Bondâ€™s defense on the possibility of change.