1st Edition

Edward Bond: Letters 4

Edited By Ian Stuart Copyright 1999
224 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Edward Bond Letters, Volume IV , focuses on four significant areas of Edward Bond's work: education, imagination and the child; theatre-in-education; At the Inland Sea ; language and imagery. The letters represent a coruscating attack on our present society, as well as offering insights into how the situation might be improved. Bond's letters attack modern education, arguing that "children are... Read more
Chapter 1 Education, Imagination and the Child; Chapter 2 Theatre-in-Education; Chapter 3 “At the Inland Sea”; Chapter 4 Language and Imagery in ‘Lear” and “In the Company of Men”;

Biography

Ian Stuart University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

" Numeracy and literacy are necessary but we must go beyond them or all the rest is sterile. Each child is different, the vicissitudes of its self-creation are different, too fine-tuned to its own experience of the world to be grasped by anyone else."