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EDWARD BOND AND TOM STOPPARD: THE ARTIST IN SOCIETY
Title
EDWARD BOND AND TOM STOPPARD: THE ARTIST IN SOCIETY.
Creator
CONNOLLY, JOANNE MARIE., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description
This study explores the resolute persistence of two opposing movements in contemporary British theater, as represented by Edward Bond and Torn Stoppard, playwrights who clash most directly concerning the ancient question: What is the role of the artist in society? While all their dramas tend to remain consistent with their particular theories, the dramas which most directly address themselves to this question of the artist's role are Bond's Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death and The Fool:...
Show moreThis study explores the resolute persistence of two opposing movements in contemporary British theater, as represented by Edward Bond and Torn Stoppard, playwrights who clash most directly concerning the ancient question: What is the role of the artist in society? While all their dramas tend to remain consistent with their particular theories, the dramas which most directly address themselves to this question of the artist's role are Bond's Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death and The Fool: Scenes of Bread and Love and Stoppard's Albert's Bridge and Travesties. While this study will illustrate that Bond remains committed to advocating political. change and that Stoppard resists being forced to justify himself in politically didactic terms at all, the purpose of the study is to examine how these contrasting views affect the theatrical aesthetics of Bond and Stoppard, demonstrating that these aesthetics ultimately maintain this theatrical polarity. As a further demonstration of their adherence to their own philosophical and aesthetic principles, other major plays will be included to illustrate this continuity.
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Date Issued
1979
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13996
Subject Headings
Bond, Edward--Criticism and interpretation, Stoppard, Tom--Criticism and interpretation
Format
Document (PDF)