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Restoration

Edward Bond author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Restoration cover

This volume contains the script for the play "Restoration" as well as the written music for the play's 14 song

Restoration is set in eighteenth-century England: a world of cruelty, injustice and iron privilege. Lord Are is forced by poverty into an unwanted marriage with the daughter of a wealthy mineowner. One morning, during breakfast, he commits a bizarre and fatal crime. He seeks to pin responsibility for it on his guileless, illiterate footman, Bob Hedges. A battle ensues between Bob's black, justice-hungry wife and the fortified privilege of the ruling classes."Bond's great gift as a comic moralist makes Lord Are condemn himself without sacrificing a scintilla of wit. Bond takes the Restoration style, enters it and turns it against itself" Robert Cushman, Observer

ISBN: 9780413760302

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 136g

176 pages