Lear by Edward Bond

192 pages first pub 1972 (editions)

fiction play challenging slow-paced

Description

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 ag...

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Moods

dark 66%
reflective 66%
challenging 33%
tense 33%

Pace

slow 33%
medium 33%
fast 33%

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