Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1979

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Pearce, Howard D.

Abstract

This study explores the resolute persistence of two opposing movements in contemporary British theater, as represented by Edward Bond and Torn Stoppard, playwrights who clash most directly concerning the ancient question: What is the role of the artist in society? While all their dramas tend to remain consistent with their particular theories, the dramas which most directly address themselves to this question of the artist's role are Bond's Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death and The Fool: Scenes of Bread and Love and Stoppard's Albert's Bridge and Travesties. While this study will illustrate that Bond remains committed to advocating political. change and that Stoppard resists being forced to justify himself in politically didactic terms at all, the purpose of the study is to examine how these contrasting views affect the theatrical aesthetics of Bond and Stoppard, demonstrating that these aesthetics ultimately maintain this theatrical polarity. As a further demonstration of their adherence to their own philosophical and aesthetic principles, other major plays will be included to illustrate this continuity.

Extent

136 p.

Comments

FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1979.|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Identifier

FADT13996

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