Edward Bond
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English writer best known as a dramatist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Edward Bond is an English playwright, theatre director, poet, theorist and screenwriter. He is the author of some fifty plays, among them Saved , the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK. Other well-received works include Narrow Road to the Deep North , Lear , The Sea , The Fool , Restoration , and the War trilogy . Bond is broadly considered among the major living dramatists but he has always been and remains highly controversial because of the violence shown in his plays, the radicalism of his statements about modern theatre and society, and his theories on drama.