Preface to the Reissue Introduction 1. Background 2. Gods 3. The World 4. Society 5. Intimates 6. The Individual and Art 7. Stagecraft Bibliography Index
Biography
Tony Coult is a playwright and arts journalist. He has written studies of Edward Bond and Brian Friel and co-edited The Welfare State Handbook. His PhD thesis Constructive Work to Do traced the history of The Arts Council of Great Britain and its relationship to drama for young people.
His plays and dramatisations have been performed by community theatre and theatre-in-education companies and broadcast by BBC Radio. Since 2015, he has curated the website of Edward Bond at https://edwardbonddrama.org/
“… a helpful guide to a demanding and awkward writer. The case for bond is made-and won hands down”.
---Anthony Everitt, RSC Newspaper
“Tony Coult, naturally, is an enthusiast though not an entirely uncritical one. He runs us first through the chronological outline of Bond’s career, then gives us chapters on various clusters of themes and attitudes in Bond’s work … One could call the book a useful introduction, but despite its relative brevity it is a lot more concentrated and a lot more demanding than that would seem to imply.”
---John Russell Taylor, Times Educational Supplement
