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Shakespeare has no answers for us at all

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Edward Bond
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 18
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
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London
England
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It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.
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I'm not interested in an imaginary world
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The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama
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Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed
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It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves
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We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
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At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
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I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.
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The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage
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But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
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In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice
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As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.
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Shakespeare has no answers for us at all
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Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
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You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
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