Bond, Edward (Vol. 4) - Bond, Edward 1934–
Bond, Edward 1934–
Bond is a controversial English playwright whose brilliant but violent and cruel plays were twice banned by Lord Chamberlain. He is best known for Saved, one of the formerly censured plays. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 25-28.)
In retrospect one might guess that Saved represents a transitional phase in Bond's work, one in which he is, more or less consciously, striving to free himself from the naturalistic style of The Pope's Wedding, with its meticulous notation of local country speech and recreation of a recognizably real world for its characters to live in, and reaching out towards the overtly non-realistic manner of Early Morning…. Saved could have made a thoroughly effective play in Bond's entirely naturalistic manner, or, seen in a different light, if he had managed to divorce it entirely from naturalism. But the text as it stands seems to me an interesting but finally...
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