Edward Bond: ‘Our theatre trivialises or generalises – both are forms of sleaze’

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Edward Bond: ‘Our theatre trivialises or generalises – both are forms of sleaze’

From the archive: In this piece first published on 28 June 1995, the late playwright asks if Shakespeare was a Tory and suggests writers should run a stage at the National TheatreEdward Bond obituaryWhen Shakespeare’s Lear is mad he wanders on a heath and proclaims a philosophy of utter sanity. If we lived by it there would be no war, poverty or cruelty. At Stratford there was a heath in which Shakespeare owned valuable financial rights. On part…