REBELLIOUS WOMEN FIGURES IN EDWARD BOND’S THEATRE CHALLENGING PATRIARCHY
REBELLIOUS WOMEN FIGURES IN EDWARD BOND’S THEATRE CHALLENGING PATRIARCHY

Summary/Abstract: "When Bond was conceiving the idea of writing a play about Ancient Greece, he decided to break the tradition of male heroes that inhabit his first ten plays. In The Woman (1978) the author, for the first time, bestows the leading role to a woman, Hecuba, the Trojan Queen, and the secondary role to another important female character, Ismene, the Greek commander’s wife, notably called Heros. Both women, though initially political enemies, unite to fight the irrational politics and the tyrannical government of the Greeks. Interestingly, Bond starts drawing special attention to the female voice at the end of the seventies, when the feminist movement had vindicated female emancipation. The author himself stated the reasons for this change as gender and sexual politics concerns in an interview with Hay and Roberts "[...]

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