Lear (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Chambers, Colin and Mike Prior. Playwrights’ Progress: Patterns of Postwar British Drama, Amber Lane, 1987.

  This book is a good general introduction to British drama after World War II. It includes individual chapters on Bond and a number of his contemporaries.

• Hirst, David L. Edward Bond, Macmillan, 1985.

  This is a general introduction to Bond’s work.

• Sked, Alan, and Chris Cook. Post-War Britain: A Political History, Penguin, 1990.

  This book provides a history of politics in Great Britain from World War II through the 1980s, including a detailed look at the 1970s, when Lear was first produced.

• Spencer, Jenny S. Dramatic Strategies in the Plays of Edward Bond, Cambridge, 1992.

  Spencer’s book provides strong analyses of many of Bond’s plays, including Lear.

• Trussler, Simon, Editor. New Theatre Voices of the Seventies, Eyre Methuen, 1981.

  This book contains sixteen interviews with contemporary British playwrights, including Bond, reprinted from Theatre Quarterly. In his interview, Bond discusses Lear.