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Author / Creator:	Bond, Edward.
Imprint:	London : Methuen, 1983.
Description:	1 online resource (lxvi,102 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Methuen student edition Methuen student edition.
Subject:	Lear, King (Legendary character) -- Drama. Drama.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12669307

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Other authors / contributors:	Hern, Patricia.
ISBN:	9781408162996.00000018
Notes:	Description based on print version record.
Summary:	First produced at the Royal Court Theatre in 1971, 'Lear' is an epic and violent rewrite of Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. In Bond's play, Lear is a paranoid autocrat, building a wall to keep out imagined 'enemies'. His daughters Bodice and Fontanelle rebel against him, causing a bloody war. Lear becomes their prisoner and goes on a journey of self-revelation. He is blinded and haunted by the ghost of a gravedigger's boy, whose kindness towards the old King led to his murder. Eventually Lear makes a gesture toward dismantling the wall he began. This gesture leads to his death, which offers hope as an example of practical activism.
Other form:	Print version : 9780413519504
Standard no.:	10.5040/9781408162996.00000018

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