Lear e-bog
101,06 DKK
(inkl. moms 126,32 DKK)
Edward Bond's version of Lear's story embraces myth and reality, war and politics, to reveal the violence endemic in all unjust societies. He exposes corrupted innocence as the core of social morality, and this false morality as a source of the aggressive tension which must ultimately destroy that society. In a play in which blindness becomes a dramatic metaphor for insight, Bond warns that 'it...
E-bog
101,06 DKK
Forlag
Methuen Drama
Udgivet
12 november 2013
Længde
192 sider
Genrer
Plays, playscripts
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781408162118
Edward Bond's version of Lear's story embraces myth and reality, war and politics, to reveal the violence endemic in all unjust societies. He exposes corrupted innocence as the core of social morality, and this false morality as a source of the aggressive tension which must ultimately destroy that society. In a play in which blindness becomes a dramatic metaphor for insight, Bond warns that 'it is so easy to subordinate justice to power, but when this happens power takes on the dynamics and dialectics of aggression, and then nothing is really changed'.